The BSEM is undergoing a self induced nightmare
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: May 12 2011 -
THE BOARD of Secondary Education, Manipur (BSEM) has been featuring in public and private discussions amongst the people and hitting the headlines in local papers, all because of wrong reasons. At this present moment of time they have become, so to say, infamous.
Parents of students have railed them, civil bodies have cajoled and then warned them, the local media have been trying its best for them to listen to justified demands,but all to no avail.
The demands are actually few and simple, be transparent in your official work, and make text books available on time. Nothing could be simpler, but not so for the BSEM.
Why? Because this is a challenge they are very reluctant to take on.
Either they believe the public outcry is not being addressed to them or that they are beyond redemption. They might not have conjured that such an unresponsive stance could be considered a rotten decision by many.
But then on May 10 around 1.40 pm they got a horrid stinking surprise when they were awoken from their habitual slumber fanned by arrogance and incompetence. Disgusted students stormed their office and hurled rotten eggs and tomatoes at them.
Even at this stage, when all alarm bells were going crazy they preferred to speak in official jargon. Poor things, they do not realise that in the next round they might have to dodge well aimed human excrement.
The BSEM might feel offended that they were pelted by putrid eggs, but one poses the humble question to them, if the BSEM had represented any other state in India would they have been treated better?
In fact, in many states they would have been skinned alive or paraded in birthday suits. But such possibilities are glossed over as they get engaged daily with officiousness and posturing.
A sizeable section of the population consider them immune to the call of duty, some consider them funny in the way they are so officious and a few others consider them as clowns. For the common folk the paraphrase is 'serious looking buffoons with two left hands who do not know their duty'.
The BSEM keeps harking on the May 15 deadline when they say all text books will be available to all school students. In a brazen act of remiss of duty, the Board does not say that it alone has given this pledge, instead it is now crouching behind the government.
Why does it speak from behind the government's shoulders stating that the government has promised text books guaranteeing them by May 15. What has happened to its sense of duty?
Our only suggestion to the frustrated students is, if rotten eggs are hard to come by, we are told that hydrogen sulphide (H2S). Its quite effective too.
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