NGO slams State Government
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 22 2016 :
While slamming the State Government's initiative to construct a power sub-station inside Yairipok Government Aided High School, the United NGOs Mission Manipur (UNMM) Women Committee has urged the Government to spare the school campus and construct the power sub-station at a suitable site.
Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club yesterday, the Women Committee convenor Mangshatabam Sobita said that Yairipok Aided High School has 460 students against 19 teachers.
Saying that its average pass percentage in the annual Class X examination conducted by BOSEM is 60 per cent, Sobita charged that construction of power sub-station within the school campus is violation of the students' rights.
The Chairperson of the School Management and Development Committee (SMDC) is the local MLA and the MLA himself studied at the school but he was saying that the power sub-station would not affect the school's academic atmosphere which is hard to believe, Sobita said.
Students of the school have been protesting against the Government's initiative for the past one month and they have not been attending classes.
She said that a memorandum would be submitted to the Prime Minister, the Union Home Minister and the Chief Minister to spare the school campus and construct the power sub-station at a suitable site.
UNMM Bishnupur District Committee convenor L Pishak said that they would take up the matter with the Manipur State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Child Welfare Committee, Child Line and the Social Welfare Department.
If the authority respects the right of students, no power sub-station should be constructed within a school campus, Pishak added.