AMSGO submits memorandum to CM, seeks review of June 16 order
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, July 09 2021: The All Manipur Students Guardians' Organisation (AMSGO) has submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister seeking review of the order issued on June 16 last by the Director of Education (S) regarding school fees and teachers' salary for private schools and in demand of 'Education Policy' of the private schools and Government-aided Schools.

In the memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister, the secretary of AMSGO highlighted that more than 80 percent of the State population are below poverty line and major chunks of the population are struggling to make both ends meet each day.

Since Covid hit the State and due to restrictions induced by it, the situation has become more grimmer each passing day, stated AMSGO secretary while appealing the Chief Minister to review the order of June 16 and scale down the prescribed fee from 50 percent to 30 percent and the payment of the staff monthly salary from 70 percent to 50 percent as done during the last academic year.

Expressing hope that poor guardians will be extremely relieved if the State Government considers the appeal, the AMSGO secretary also urged the Chief Minister for a stringent Education policy of the private schools and the Govt-aided Schools considering the unbridled functioning of private schools for the last many decades.

The policy should encompass measures to limit the number of students per class in a school, especially for the classes I to XII to curtail the monopoly and the business motive with which some founders are running their schools, the AMSGO secretary said.

AMSGO after deliberations regarding the limitation of students had also arrived at conclusion that maximum number of students per class room for classes I-X should be 50 and that for classes XI and XII should be 70, the secretary asserted while adding that number of sections per class in a school should be limited to three only.

Maintaining a uniformity in the structures of the admission fee and tuition fee will be a boon for the State as it will definitely help in curtailing the commercialization of education, suggested AMSGO.

The organisation also drew the attention of the Chief Minister to devise a tentative policy to provide free education to students of Government-aided and private schools considering the terrible financial woes the public is enduring during this ongoing ravage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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