Govt's apathy puts Ukhrul KVS students in dire strait
Source: The Sangai Express
Ukhrul, August 08, 2012:
For the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) in Ukhrul, there is always a bagful of miseries to carry on their shoulders - that too, for over three years together now.
The one and only KVS institution in Ukhrul, established few years ago, is dogged with scores of difficulties.
Since 2009, the school is running sans principal and adequate classrooms with no co-curricular activities for students.
In an interaction with mediapersons, the KVS Parents Support Group (PSG) has expressed serious concern over the prolong negligence meted out to the students since inception in 2007. "The school is being run without principal since 2009 and the career of the students has been put in serious jeopardy," said PSG Co-Convenor Wonthing A.Shimray.
KVS Ukhrul has at present 400 students and is operating from temporary classrooms allotted by Tangkhul Naga Long.
PSG executive member Dr.Lucy Shaiza felt that if the condition goes on in this manner, the students will be left nowhere at the end and appealed to the concerned authorities to look into matter at the earliest.
Earlier, it has put up memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner of Ukhrul R.Sudhan, who is also the KVS chairman, to address the issues.
However, there has been no positive response till date, PSG Secretary R.A.Cannan lamented.Further, the school has exacted fee for computer class from the students.
However, the students have never been imparted computer lesson in the current academic session.
The PSG informed that the KVS do not have teachers for subjects comprising Computer, Hindi and for Upper Primary Science.
In fact, a site has been allocated for construction of permanent KVS building on the outskirts of Ukhrul.
However, the work has been stalled due to non disbursal of fund from Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry and Centre Public Work Department (CPWD).
Concerned over the pathetic state of affairs in KVS, the PSG has also constructed two classrooms and four toilet rooms to accommodate the growing number of students.
The school is to be ultimately upgraded to higher secondary.
But in the existing condition, whether this would be possible remains a major cause of concern.