KYKL bans Slopeland Public School
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 30 2022:
The proscribed KYKL has resolved to ban the functioning of Slopeland Public School, Khongjom with effect from 2023-24 academic session.
According to a press release issued by the outfit's Publicity and Research Secretary A Yaiphaba, the outfit requested the school authority to pay an annual tax to the organization in the past four years.
But the school authority did not listen to the request.
They refused to meet the outfit's representatives nor received letters nor did they answer telephone calls.
"This means that the Principal and authority of the school stand against KYKL and the liberation struggle it spearheads while viewing KYKL as flimsy and powerless.
We have therefore resolved to ban the functioning of the school starting with 2023�2024 academic session", it said.
A few years back, when the ONK movement was going on, the KYKL urged the institution to comply with certain principles and norms in order to save the ever deteriorating education in Manipur and stop using unfair means in examinations.
They ignored and did not care about it, Yaiphaba said.
It then appealed to all the parents and guardians of the students studying in the school to transfer their children to other schools within the next three months.
Launching a liberation movement costs a lot of money, much like running a Government, it said and added the State levies taxes on the general public to generate the funds required to maintain a Government.
Tax is something that no one can avoid paying, and the rate is determined by those who collect the tax, not the taxpayers.
If the rate seems excessive, it is possible to negotiate it, but it is impossible to avoid paying any tax at all.
Tax evaders must face consequences for their actions, added the outfit.
Any Government, whether it be a State Government or a revolutionary government, is governed by such a law, it said.
These days, opening schools, colleges, and other institutions in Manipur is entirely commercial.
There is simply no aspect of social work involved in establishing them.
They usually engage in a number of unethical and excessive practices in order to earn profit, including supporting the students directly or indirectly by school authorities while using unfair means during examination, utilizing manipulative tactics to increase students' pass rate, engaging in shady dealings to produce more position holders, hiring question setters to surreptitiously teach their students, investing a substantial sum of money to enrol position-holder students in their institutions, influencing higher authorities through corruption to give their students excellent grades, exploiting school teachers, collecting outrageously high admission fees, and imposing a bunch of unnecessary fees, it added.