Decision on MSC objected
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 11, 2013:
All Manipur School Management and Development Committee Association (AMSMADCA) has objected to the decision of the Education Minister and the State Cabinet on formation of monitoring and supervision committee (MSC) in every constituency.
In a lengthy statement issued by its Joint Secretary Md Islamuddin, the Association asserted that the decision is clearly an infringement on the norms of SSA/RTE Act to meet their petty political ends.
Reacting to the news reports which say that MLAs of all the 60 Assembly Constituencies in the State will be the chairmen of such MSCs and the ZEOs concerned are to be the Member Secretaries, the Association alleged that the Education Minister has mislead the Chief Minister and all the Members by saying that SMDCs are not properly functioning.
The truth is that so far SMDCs have not been entrusted any works under SSA right from the inception of SSA/RTE Act except some incomplete works started by the then Village Education Committees/Ward Education Committees.
SMDCs wre floated only when the RTE Act became effected in the State, i.e.in the latter part of 2010 and early part of 2011 and formation of SMDCs was completed not long ago.
So, blaming SMDCs by the Education Minister is nothing but a direct and intentional ploy to ridicule their presence in order to meet only his vested interest, the Association further alleged.