DESAM hopes New Year ushers quality education
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 02, 2013:
Listing development of knowledge and social capitals' as the most essential ingredients for a society to achieve all round progress, the Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) expressed hope that the Government of Manipur will focus on these two sectors in the year 2013. A DESAM statement issued ahead of its 11th foundation anniversary pointed out that development of education had been the genesis of all the developed nations.
Regretting that in the context of Manipur the education sector has been one of the most neglected sectors with politicians transforming education sector as a political game-plan and bureaucrats misusing education-related funds to amass personal wealth in connivance with contractors/suppliers, alleged the student body.
Citing below par performance by Government educational institutions compared to private schools and deplorable condition of many Government schools to substantiate its claim that the Government has utterly failed to provide requisite impetus on development of education in the State, DESAM mooted that along with ensuring basic infrastructure in Government schools/colleges a rationale transfer policy is needed for lifting standard of education in Manipur.
Absence of regular head of institutions is another stumbling block for the younger generations facing a bleak future with callousness and lack of bureaucratic commitment some of the factors for the parents reluctant to educate their wards in Government schools, said the DESAM statement.
Highlighting that parents' preference for privately-run educational institutions, both in the State and outside, to ensure proper education of their children will ultimately mean draining the State's fragile economy as these institutions entails comparatively high expenditures, DESAM lamented that in such a scenario it would be impossible for students belonging to economically unsound families to have any sort of formal education.
With similar deplorable condition besieging higher education scenario there is little to hope that Manipuri students will be able to compete with their peers, observed the student body while strongly stressing on the need to ensure basic provision such as adequate faculty members, library, laboratory and toilet facilities to promote quality education in the State.
DESAM also desired that the Education Minister proof his commitment to usher quality education in Manipur rather that repeatedly claim and assure that the Government will do the needful.