DESAM lauds nod to include Meitei Mayek as official script
'Legislate to check wrongdoings in exams'
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, December 15 2020: Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) has acknowledged the Chief Minister, Education Minister, Director Education (S) and officials concerned for the considerate act of approving its long standing demand to include Meitei Mayek as an official script during the recent Cabinet meeting convened at Senapati.

Expressing gratitude to Chief Minister N Biren, Education Minister S Rajen on the approval and Director of Education (S) Nandakumar and other officials for their roles in preparing the Cabinet Memo, DESAM said that with the inclusion of the script by amending the Manipur Official Language Act 1979, the Matei Mayek script can be used during official transactions.

DESAM also urged the State Government to remove Bengali script from among the list of official scripts of the State without fail.

The student body welcomed Government's move to shortlist 5 colleges to introduce 'Integrated Teachers Education Programme', which it had been demanding for long, it said while appealing the State Government to do the needful to expand the programme to other colleges across the State from next year onwards.

DESAM also urged the State Government to take concrete actions against wrongdoers during board examinations by formulating a new legal provision or law during the Assembly Session slated to be held in February next year.

Referring to Karnataka Education Act 1983 which was further amended in 2017 to include penal provision, the student body asked the State Government to enact a new similar law since the issue of question paper leakage, impersonation cases, facilitation of unfair means and other irregularities during examinations conducted by BOSEM and COHSEM continue to persist owing to the absence of a strict law.

Due to inaction on the part of the Government despite numerous ultimatums, DESAM had filed a complaint case to the Human Rights Commission recently seeking recommendations and a case in this regard has been taken up on September 18 this year, it said.

Consequent to the complaint case, it is learnt that the response of the State Government is now pending at the Law Department and as such the case is likely to be resolved soon, it said.

Considering the seriousness of the matter, the State Government should call a Cabinet meeting ahead of the Assembly Session, said DESAM while reiterating its appeal to enact an appropriate law which contains befitting penalties to curb all the wrongdoings in examinations.

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