AIMS demands immediate release of arrested individuals
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 12 2018:
Apunba Ireipakki Maheiroi Sinpanglup (AIMS) has demanded the authority concerned to immediately release the people who were arrested for demanding inclusion of Thang-Ta teachers in the recruitment of Higher Secondary lecturers.
Speaking to media persons at AIMS office at Kwakeithel today, its advisor Longjam Abothe Meitei said that one of the 28 people who were arrested yesterday, Elangbam Sachin of Urup Awang Leikai, who also happens to be an AIMS volunteer, was supposed to go outside the State in connection with a Thang-Ta event but the plan was cancelled as he was arrested by the police.
Condemning the the failure to appoint Thang-Ta teachers at the Higher Secondary level, Abothe said that AIMS as well as other student bodies have been demanding the State Government for inclusion of Thang-Ta in the Higher Secondary syllabus as well as for the selection of necessary teachers, for a long time now.
But instead of heeding the demand of the people, Education (S) conducted the written test for the selection of Higher Secondary lecturers yesterday at 10 different centres, he said and added that the CSOs concerned rose in protest against such unwarranted act of the authority concerned.
Demanding the Government to appoint necessary teachers for Thang -Ta, Abothe reasoned that the step is necessary for Manipur University of Culture even has a Thang-Ta course.
Further demanding immediate and unconditional release of the arrested individuals, the AIMS advisor said that the association will support every step taken up by JSCC or any other CSOs concerning the issue.