AMSU warns of stir over ignored demands
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, July 19 2022:
AMSU has warned of launching different forms of protest unless the government fulfils its 12-point charter of demands related with education sector submitted in the form of memorandum on May 24 .
Addressing a press meet in this regard at its head office, DMU campus here on Tuesday, AMSU secretary general Bikramjit Thongam informed that the charter of demands include budget enhancement for education sector;
full-fledged Dhanamanjuri University; implementation of Manipur Private School Registration and Regulations Act, 2017; appointment of regular director for SCERT; appointment of regular headmasters/principals in all government schools/colleges; scrapping the system of utilisation of teachers; appointment of academicians instead of IAS/MCS officers in the administration of educational institutes; inter-district transport service to ease high fare burden on students; inclusion of local context in the syllabus under NEP 2020; skill development and vocational training courses in colleges; instilling the sense of Manipuri nationalism by making state song mandatory in all government schools/colleges; and inclusion of environmental education as a way to counter environment degradation and climate change.
Even as the government has not been able to upgrade DM University into a full-fledged university, the government is proposing setting up of Maharaj Kullachandra University.
Though AMSU has no objection to setting up any new university, the union would like to appeal to the government to focus its priority on upgrading DM University into a full-fledged one first.
All the constituent colleges under DM University are among the leading colleges of the state but delay in the upgrade of DM University is taking toll on these colleges.
Moreover, the university has stopped receiving funding under RUSA scheme after the first phase.
Education (U) has also stopped releasing fund for infrastructure development and maintenance.
As a result, condition of the university is degrading day by day.
Accept for the vice-chancellor, there is no regular teaching and non-teaching staff of the university.
The process for recruitment to fill up vacant posts of teaching and non-teaching staff has been kept in abeyance, he said.
Even after two months of
submitting the memorandum, the government has not taken up any steps in response to their demands, he said while terming it as an invitation to the student community to come out on to the street and launch
protest.
He then urged the government to prioritise the demand for budget enhancement, full-fledged DM University, implementation of Manipur Private Schools Registration and Regulations Act, 2017, and
mandatory state song in schools/colleges among the 12-point charter of demands.