Thang-Ta JAC disrupts exam, 28 held
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 11 2018:
At least 28 volunteers of the JAC on Thang-Ta Teachers' Recruitment have been arrested by police after the former disrupted the written test conducted today at two centres for recruitment of contract lecturers in Government Higher Secondary Schools in protest against the State Government's failure to include lecturers for the martial arts subject in the recruitment.
Meanwhile, the JAC has today warned of intensifying their agitation, including imposition of bandh, if the Government fails to release the arrested volunteers within 24 hours without any condition and due process is not initiated urgently for recruitment of Thang-Ta lecturers in Government Higher Secondary Schools.
Addressing a press meet held today somewhere at Imphal East district, the JAC's co-convenor Saikhom Shanta decried the State Government for arresting the JAC's volunteers.
He informed that at least 24 volunteers were arrested from Ananda Singh Higher Secondary School, Nongmeibung and another four volunteers from Model Higher Secondary School, Takyel when they attempted to thwart the written test held at the said centres at around 11 am today.
He asserted that the JAC volunteers were forced to disrupt the written test as the State Government completely sidelined the JAC's repeated appeals to include the post of lecturers for Thang-Ta in the recruitment of lecturers in Government Higher Secondary Schools.
The JAC had served memorandums and ultimatums besides conveying through media in the past to recruit Thang-Ta lecturers to Government Higher Secondary Schools.
However, the State Government conducted the written test for recruitment of History lecturers without considering the pleas of the JAC.
The JAC can no longer tolerate the complete ignorance of its long standing demand for inclusion of the post of lecturer for Thang-ta in the recruitment of lecturers for various subjects in the Government Higher Secondary Schools, he added.
Demanding the State Government to release the arrested volunteers of the JAC within 24 hours (from today) without any condition and also to adopt a concrete decision to recruit Thang-Ta lecturers in Government Higher Secondary Schools at the earliest, Shanta warned that the JAC will launch intensified mode of agitation, including imposition of bandh if the Government fails to meet its (JAC's) demands.
On the other hand, Higher and Technical Education Commissioner H Deleep Singh informed that the written test will be conducted again after the authorities concerned convened an emergency meeting to maintain transparency in the process of the recruitment.
Meanwhile, Education (S) Director Th Kirankumar said that the recruitment test held today was for only sanctioned posts which have specific rules and regulations of their own.
As for Thang-Ta lecturers, there is neither any sanctioned post nor any rules and regulations at the moment.
Nonetheless, a committee has been formed to look into the requirements of drafting the requisite rules and regulations, he informed.