KSA alleges
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 18 2019:
Expressing disappointment with the fact that Manipur failed to get a spot among any of the 200 spots in the All India Higher Education (university, colleges and institution) ranking of the National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF), a body under the MHRD, Kangleipak Students' Association (KSA) secretary (YAS) Khulakpam Sanjoy has claimed that this shows that those concerned with improving the educational system of the State have completely failed to perform their responsibilities.
Speaking to media persons at KSA office located at Khoyathong, Sanjoy said that the teachers of the State are not provided ample research facilities and required academic programmes are not organised which have resulted in a paralysis of the academic system.
He continued that it is also imperative for the Government and the authorities concerned to monitor whether the universities are able to accommodate the applications of the students who have passed out from various colleges and institutions affiliated to Manipur University.
On the other hand, the State Assembly passed the Dhanamanjuri University Bill on August 3, 2017 but even to this day, there are no regular VC, Registrar, Dean of Students' Welfare, Executive Council and Academic Council.
Even the appeals by numerous students bodies to do the needful have fallen on deaf ears which shows that the Government has completely neglected the academic system of the State, he alleged.
He then informed that KSA has started a State wide signature campaign for the creation of additional universities and the students' body plans to submit it to the MHRD as a memorandum.
Similar memo will also be submitted to the Education Minister, Education Commissioner, Director of Education, he added.
Sanjoy further informed that KSA will organise a workshop/seminar along with the authorities concerned to deliberate on the possible effects on the curriculum/syllabus of the schools, institutes, colleges and universities under the Education and after the Draft National Education Policy 2019 is transformed into an Education Policy.