Sit in protest staged
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 23 2019:
Parents and Guardians Council of Persons with Disabilities Manipur, organised a sit in protest in front of the gates of Government Ideal Blind School and Government Deaf and Mute School (Takyelpat) today demanding upgrading of the schools to class XII standards and to fill up the vacant posts of the schools.
Speaking to media persons on the sideline of the sit in protest, president of the association Thangjam Saratkumar said that memo have been submitted to the State Government repeatedly in 2017 as well as this year in connection with the demands but there has been no positive response from the authority concerned till date.
He also demanded the Government to fill up the vacant staff of the schools, increase the diet allowance of the two special schools and to sanction it after every two or three months.
If the demands are not met within a week, intense forms of agitation will be launched, he warned.