Itanagar, Oct 19 (PTI): People living in disputed areas along the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam border have been caught in a Catch 22 situation, often becoming the targets of threats and harassment from anti-social elements of both the States.
Government employees, particularly teachers, posted in these areas are the worst affected. Teachers, working in the government middle school at New Serene under Nari-Koyu constituency in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, a disputed area, claim they are neither provided with any facility by Arunachal government nor given protection from harassment by people from across the border.
"We get threats and are told to close the school and vacate the area on one hand and on the other, the government wants us to stay put and run the school," said the school's headmaster Bomgi Doke.
Itanagar, Oct 19 (PTI): People living in disputed areas along the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam border have been caught in a Catch 22 situation, often becoming the targets of threats and harassment from anti-social elements of both the States.
Government employees, particularly teachers, posted in these areas are the worst affected. Teachers, working in the government middle school at New Serene under Nari-Koyu constituency in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, a disputed area, claim they are neither provided with any facility by Arunachal government nor given protection from harassment by people from across the border.
"We get threats and are told to close the school and vacate the area on one hand and on the other, the government wants us to stay put and run the school," said the school's headmaster Bomgi Doke.
