Govt upgrades nine high schools
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, August 27 2021:
The state government has upgraded Kasom Khullen, Praja, Khonghampat, Kamjong, Urup, Oinam Government Girl's, Siribon, Wabagai and New Tusom Frontier high schools to higher secondary level with effect from the academic session 2021-22.In an order, Education (S) commissioner M Harekrishna mentioned that there are 59 higher secondary schools as compared to 363 high schools in the state and in the recently declared High School Leaving Certificate Examination (HSLC), 2021, 100 per cent pass percentage has been registered.
Due to the prevailing Covid-19 situation in the country, parents/guardians are still apprehensive of sending their wards to other states for higher studies and there is a need for establishment of more higher secondary schools in the state in order to provide admission avenue to students who have cleared the HSLC, 2021 conducted by Board of Secondary Education, Manipur or equivalent boards, it stated.
The Education (S) commissioner continued that the order was issued in cognisance of the pressing need to ensure admission to students for higher studies in the government schools in the state and to allay the fear and uncertainty among the students/parents over inability to get admission in higher classes and in anticipation of a government decision in this regard.
Further, services of senior most lecturers in the existing schools are allowed to be utilised as principal and vice principal in these schools along with utilisation of the services of qualified graduate teachers of the department wherever required, in their respective grade pay and without any extra remuneration, the order said, while notifying that the up-gradation is issued with the approval of the competent authority and subject to post-facto approval of the state cabinet.