RTE by passes Kamutangnom
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, March 01 2012: In the absence of any Government or private school, the Government of India's Right to Education Act enacted with a vision to ensure free and compulsory education to all children remains something totally inaccessible in Kamutangnom village located within Saikul block in Senapati district.

It is strange that the most basic educational infrastructure still eludes the village which is located just about 28 Kms away from Imphal.

The village has around 17 households with a total population of just 100 people.

There is not single Government of private school in the village posing a serious hurdle to education.

Children of the village having been going to Andro on foot everyday for schooling some two-three kilometres while a few fortunate ones study in boarding schools at Imphal.

For higher education, all the students of the village, usually stay in rented rooms or boardings to study in schools and colleges located at Imphal.

As such, it remains a big burden for parents to meet educational expenditures of their wards.

Thangpu Vaiphei, a resident of the village said that his four children have been studying at Imphal by taking rented rooms.

At the least, Thangpu has been spending Rs 3000 every month for paying room rents and tuition fees.

To meet the educational expenditures of his children, Thangpu has been toiling hard as a wood-cutter.

Some other villagers lamented that a centre for Education Guarantee Scheme opened at the village under SSA two years back has been closed down.

Another perennial woe of the village is inaccessibility to electricity.

There has been no electricity supply to the village in the aftermath of the Naga-Kuki class.

Even as some electric poles were scattered to put up power lines through the village and some other villages, nothing has been done after that for actual power supply.

In the meantime, the Manipur Renewable Energy Development Agency conducted a feasibility survey yesterday for installing a micro-hydel power generator at the village.

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