Stop the unhealthy culture of teachers utilization, says ATSUM
Source: The Sangai Express

Kangpokpi, May 25 2018: Reiterating its stance for imposition of a blanket ban on utilization of teachers from the hill districts to the valley, ATSUM appealed the authority concerned to take immediate steps to put to rest the teachers utilization programme.

The massive utilization of teachers either at offices or valley schools has caused unprecedented damage to the normal functioning of Hill Schools and this was unearthed during a joint inspection of Kamuching High School today said ATSUM education secretary, Kakai Singsit.

A team of ATSUM comprising of its legal secretary, Simthar Jajp led by its education secretary, Kakai Singsit and Zillai Eastern Block had a joint inspection of Kamuching High School under Island Sub-Division in Kangpokpi today.

Speaking to media persons, Kakai Singsit said that the practice of utilization of teachers in the State should be stopped once and for all considering the destructive impact in the education systems more particularly in the tribal dominated hill district of the State.

Unless the culture of utilization of teachers is abolished, any Govt policies and programmes in the hill districts of Manipur particularly the education sector will remain murky and impossible to meet its purposes, he said.

"During the joint inspection, it has come to light that the Kamuching High School building under construction since 2015 only has skeletal remains of the structures.

Students are compelled to learn under the incomplete building at their own peril," said Kakai Singsit.

"Out of the 11 teachers the school has, three were found to have been utilized.

It has seriously dented the academic career of the poor students studying in the school," he said.

Most of the students are from families with poor economic background and many of them belong to Mapithel dam downstream affected families.

It is the moral and social responsibility of the Govt to address their suffering and repatriate the three teachers in the right earnest, the education secretary said.

He further urged the authority concerned to take necessary steps for early completion of the school building in the larger interest of the poor student community.

Meanwhile, the joint inspection team of the ATSUM and Zillai Eastern Block also conducted a joint meeting with the school Headmaster, teachers, parents and SMDC's.Deeply concerned over the problems encountered by the students, ATSUM assured to take up all the matters concerning the plights of the school to the authority concerned for immediate redressal.

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