Jiribam Organisation denied appointment, decries apathy of Education Minister
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, June 25 2018: Leaders of Borobekra Sub-Division Development Organisation Jiribam, who came a long way from Jiribam to meet the State Education Minister Th Radheshyam, have been denied appointment for several days alleged the organisation today.

We came to inform the Minister about the various grievances of the people in Borobekra but we are denied of appointment with the Minister, said the disappointed leaders of the organisation at Manipur Press Club.

We are compelled to return home empty hand.

We have been waiting for an appointment with the Education Minister for 21 days.

Nearly Rs 50,000 has also been spent so on fooding and lodging, said chainnan of Borobekra Sub-Division Development Organisation Ph Jiten Singha speaking to reporters at the Press Club.

They came to apprise the Minister about the infrastructure shortages plaguing the schools in Borobekra Sub-Division.

The Minister not only failed to give them an appointment but also failed to entertain a memorandum of the organisation, he alleged.

Chief Minister Biren led State Government has launched Go to village Mission to resolve the public grievances and provide benefits of the Government schemes at people's doorsteps.

However, the Education Minister has shown 'step-motherly' treatment to the people of Jiribam by denying appointment to the leaders of Borobekra, the chairman alleged.

The attitude of the Education Minister has defiled the spirit of Go To village Mission, he asserted.

"CM Biren should drop the present Education Minister as he is unfit," he asserted.

Regarding the grievances of the Government schools in Jiribam, the chairman said that most of the Govt schools in Borobekra Sub-Division have very poor infrastructures and are paralysed with shortage of teachers.

Borobekra Higher Secondary School, the only Govt higher secondary school in Borpbekra, which has a strength of over 600 students, is facing acute shortage of teachers and infrastructures.

The school lacks teachers' quarters, boundary wall, Science Labs, Hostels for students, he said.

While the school is facing shortage of teachers, as many as 6 teachers of Manipuri, History, English, Science, Home science and Mathmatics subjects have been transferred from the school recently.

Another five teachers of the school have been utilised, he added.

One teacher was recently transferred to the school, however, he has been again transferred from the school before he even join his posting place.

Such transfer policy of the Government is quite unfair and demoralising, he said.

The school has no Vice Principal, lecturers for Physics, Bengali, Hindi, Computer Science, Manipuri and other non-teaching staff, he said.

About other schools in the district, he said only one teacher is manning the Jatrapur Primary School which has a strength of over 170 students.

Four teachers are running Betaji High School which has 350 students while five teachers are manning Chotobekra High School which has 250 students, he continued.

Local MLA Md Ashabuddin, a representative of the people of the area, has failed to initiate any measures to resolve their grievances, he alleged.

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