AMBSU holds public meet
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 29 2016:
The All Manipur Bengali Students' Union
(AMBSU) organised a public meeting at Al-
Ameen English School Sonapur, Jiribam today
to discuss factors for the development of school
education and implementation of different
schemes related to education in Jiribam like
Civil Work under Sarva Siksha Abhiyan
(SSA), Bengali language as medium of teach-
ing up to primary level in schools located in
Bengali inhabited areas and recruitment of
Bengali language teachers for primary schools,
Jiri News Network (JNN) reports.
The meeting pointed out that as per the
guidelines of SSA, construction of school
buildings, kitchen, fencing wall, toilets/ la-
trines, renovation of school building etc
under civil work should be carried out by
the School Management Committee (SMC)
and not by any contractor, agency, group,
NGO or individual.
The meeting also reviewed the possibility
of implementation of provision 29 (2)(f) of
RTE Act, 2009 in Jiribam under which the
student's mother tongue should be the me-
dium of teaching in the school up to primary
level.
ABMSU, in the meeting, decided to sub-
mit a reminder of the memorandum which
was submitted to the Chief Minister, Educa-
tion Minister, Minority Commissioner and
Director of Education with an ultimatum of
June 5, 2016 so as to initiate implementation
of provision 29(2)(f) of RTE Act, 2009 in
the sub-division.
AMBSU has warned to close all Government institutions located in Bengali inhabited areas indefinitely in case
the State Government fails to implement the provision
29(2)(f) of RTE Act, 2009 by June 5, JNN reports.