Agitating students said that their school was upgraded to higher secondary since 2016 and the session began on 2018 has been deprived of higher secondary teachers till date.
KRC TIMES Desk
Students of Lamlong Higher Secondary School in Manipur have decided to intensify their agitation by not going home and occupying their school even at night as a form of protest against the failure of the state government to provide sufficient higher secondary teacher for higher secondary school teachers even after they had staged a sit-in protest demanding the same on July 22.
Agitating students said that their school was upgraded to higher secondary since 2016 and the session began in 2018 has been deprived of higher secondary teachers till date. The school also lacks laboratories and other necessary requirements for a school, they added.
Briefing media at the premises of the school, a student of the school Ningombam Alfred said, “We went to the education department on August 1 to place our demands and warned of sleeping in the school at night if our demands are not fulfilled, but the assistant director of education agreed to let us take up our agitation”.
Following the department’s failure to deliver their assurance, the students meet the officials of the department on August 2 in which they were given assurance again that the order for appointment of the teacher will be declared by 5 August in the evening, he said. He continues saying that the students had met the education director earlier demanding teachers for the higher secondary classes after which they were told that the teachers will be provided by the end of July.
It may be mentioned that volunteers of Socialist Students Union Manipur and students of Lamlong Higher Secondary School on July 26 stormed the office of Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC) demanding swift action against failure to provide sufficient higher secondary teachers which the students alleged amounts to a violation of the Right to Education.
The acting chairman of MHRC, senior advocate Khaidem Mani on the same day issued a notice to the education commissioner to take necessary action regarding the non-deputation of Secondary lecturers and the commission also registered a case and issued a notice to the commissioner of education to take necessary action regarding the paucity of teachers on or before August 7
