Aizawl, July 24: Just days after the Mizoram government settled the issue of payscale parity of a majority of its employees, more trouble has cropped up with doctors and teachers seeking redressal of their grievances through agitation.

The Mizoram Hindi Teachers Association told the media here today that the teachers would resort to an agitation unless their appointment orders were issued and their pay, due for four months, disbursed before July 30, 2007.

The Hindi teachers had been initially recruited under a central scheme with the understanding that the state would regularise them after a period of time. Under central obligation and pressure from teachers, the government agreed to regularise 491 Hindi teachers under the state plan and issued an order to this effect on April 3.

However, it did not implement the decision and there were rumours that only 350 of the teachers would be given regular appointments. The association insisted that appointments should be given to all and set July 20 as the deadline for the government to sort out the matter.

When this did not produce the desired results, the association called its members from all over the state and staged a sit-in near the chief minister’s office yesterday.

Today, they addressed the media and gathered in front of the State Planning Board building near the Assembly, from where the police chased them to Vanapa Hall. They then took out a procession from the hall to Babutlang where the school education directorate is located.

Doctors, too, have also voiced their grievance for not having been included in the state government’s recent payscale parity scheme.

At a meeting held here yesterday, the Mizoram Government Doctors Association decided to take mass casual leave on Thursday and Friday. If this does not produce results, they will take a three-day mass casual leave from August 1 to 3, a release said.

The doctors will, however, attend to emergencies during the agitation.