State Govt nods to separate commission for tribes
Source: The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network
Imphal, December 01 2013 :
Tribals in Manipur will have additional teeth to safeguard their rights in three months' time.
On November 25, the state government of Manipur agreed to set up a separate state commission for the tribals in Manipur by February next year, thanks to All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) led by Muan Tombing and Vareiyo Shatsang.
It can be noted here that the state government had promised to regularize the lecturers serving as contract teachers in the hills.
Few days ago, the government had directed all concerned ZEOs in hill districts to meet the Principal Secretary Dr.Suresh Babu along with the documents.
The government had also assured that a tribal Manipur Civil Service (MCS) officer will be posted as Additional Director (Hills), Education.
The shortage of a qualified ZEO in the hill districts will be fulfilled by posting one in each hill district within a week.
The problem of shortage of doctors and medical helps will also be addressed in the hill districts in the next few days time which will remove the backlog faced by the hospitals.
Another assurance was that the government's order for deletion of Additional English in lieu of MIL for unrecognized tribes in the new scheme of study in Class IX from academic session 2014-2015 and in next year under Board of School Education, Manipur (BOSEM) had been withheld for consideration.
It is worthwhile to mention here that ATSUM-T had demanded that the condition of educational atmosphere in the hill districts is improved by appontmenting or recruitmenting adequate teaching and non-teaching staff and necessary infrastructure for schools in the hill areas.
In this regard, ATSUM also demands for the setting up of B.ed centres in the hill districts.
It then demanded for the early solution to the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University
(IGNTU) crises.
Another demand of ATSUM was the improvement of healthcare in the hill districts by makeing all PHSC, PHC, CHC and DHC functional.
It demanded that proper equipments with required specislist doctors and nurses in the district hospitals of the hills be posted.
One prime demand of ATSUM had been to establish a separate state Commission for Scheduled Tribe (ST) in Manipur.