Students lambast govt
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 12 2011:
Intensifying its protests against the unavailability of school textbooks in the market, four students ' unions of the State�All Manipur Students' Union (AMSU), Democratic Students' Association Manipur (DESAM), Manipur Students' Federation (MSF) and Kangleipak Students' Association (KSA) today lambasted the State government of playing with the lives of the students.
Speaking to the media at the office of AMSU in DM College campus at about 5 pm today the students' bodies said that their vigil and a tip-off by a teacher led to the discovery on May 11 of 6000 school books being stashed away clandestinely inside Shakhi Devi High School in Uripok.
Unfortunately, as the students' activists went to the school to survey and ascertain the fact, police intervened, they said.
They complained that even as the summer vacation was supposed to begin next month, schools in Imphal valley have declared the vacation prematurely, depriving the students of education.
The fact that the government is only interested in recruiting teachers and not concerned about textbooks being unavailable in the market, speaks a lot about the corruption and rot in the education system, the students' activists said.
"Printing of textbooks is hardly profitable while recruiting teachers involve exchange of fat money," they said.
Romen of AMSU, Thoithoi of DESAM, Anash Shah of MSF and Nanao of KSA were present in the press meet today.