IMPHAL: Teachers serving in the hills under the Manipur schools education department have expressed their opposition against the government's decision to bring administration of all elementary schools of the area under the Autonomous District Council (ADC).
Strife-torn Manipur has six ADCs, one each intribal-dominatedTamenglong, Chandel, Ukhrul and Churachandpur districts and two in Senapati. The teachers even threatened to launch an agitation if the decision on the matter was not reviked.
The disgruntled teachers, united under the banner 'All Manipur Hill Teachers' Association' (Amhta), said in a statement that decision was an attempt to degrade the status of education and they would never accept such a government policy.
The teachers also decried the recent order to transform the School Management Development Committee (SMDC) to School Management Committee (SMC) for which an elected ADC member should be chairman and the bank account should be jointly operated by the headmaster/headmistress and the DRDA executive director. Such order is illogical and smacked of a design to further degrade the status of education in thehill districts, the association said.
A memorandum to this effect was also submitted to the governor recently with an appeal to annul the decision. Stating that the government has failed to take up any positive action towards their grievancesdespite the memorandum, the association threatened to launch a strike.
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