Imphal, November 29 2009: Unidentified persons made abortive murder attempt on former president of Manipur University Students' Union (MUSU) Khundongbam Ashok Kumar (34) s/o Maniram in the intervening night of November 27 and 28 at his home at Heirok Part II Thokchom Leikai.
Ashok Kumar was sleeping in an outer room adjacent to the verandah of the house when unidentified persons fired three rounds towards him through a ventillator above the window of his room at about 1.15 am of November 28, said a police source.
Luckily, the former MUSU president survived the murder attempt unhurt.
Empty cases of 9 mm ammunition and a shumbal (pestle or pounder) suspected to have been used by the assailants to reach the ventillator were found in the verandah.
Taking strong exception to the assault, a large number of people staged a protest demonstration at Heirok Thokchom Leikai.
Ashok Kumar, currently teaching Political Science at Heirok Higher Secondary School, said that he has no personal animosity with any body.
He grew up as a student activist and was elected as general secretary of DESAM in 2001.
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| Womenfolk demonstrating against the murder attempt on former MUSU president Ashok Kumar |
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He was also president of the Manipur University Students' Union in 2005-06 .
"There were certain incidents during those periods but all the problems have been amicably resolved.
Now I'm not related to any of those problems", Ashok Kumar said .
Meanwhile, a public meeting held at Heirok today has resolved to keep night vigil in the locality of Ashok Kumar until a definite explanation is received about the murder attempt.
They also appealed to all concerned to own and explain the murder attempt.
Imphal, November 26 2009: Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO), Khengjoy Block and Kuki Chiefs' Association (KCA), Khengjoy Block in Chandel district have expressed deep concern over the safety and security of the innocent local civilians in Khengjoy block, particularly in Old Samtal area where encounter took place between the insurgents and the security forces on November 23 .
In a joint statement, vice president of KCA Khengjoy Block Henkhongam Haokip and information secretary of KSO Khengjoy Block Letsei Haokip pointed out that frequent incidents of shoot outs in the area have disturbed the peaceful coexistence and normal life of the people.
Therefore, it is our appeal to the underground outfits not to carry out such unwanted activities in Khengjoy block in future for the sake of innocent civilians, the joint statement said.
It also appealed to the security forces and other higher authorities concerned to ensure the safety and security of the innocent civilians and allow free movement to carry on their daily activities.
Imphal, November 25 : CAUCUS 2009, a two-day long academic programme being organised by All Tribal Students' Union, Manipur (ATSUM) has begun from today at the indoor stadium of Chandel district headquarters.
Being held under the theme of 'Envisioning change through education, Commissioner of Education (S) Prashantkumar Singh, IAS was the chief guest of the inaugural function.
Deputy Commissioner of Chandel district H Dilip Singh, IAS and Director of Education (S) M Harekrishna were also present at the function as president and guest of honour respectively.
In his address, Prashantkumar observed that change cannot be expected overnight but it should come through sustained efforts.
The Government of Manipur has been making consistent efforts towards improvement of the education system in the State.
So instead of criticising the efforts of the Government, it would be appreciable on the part of the public and other civil organisations to come up with constructive ideas, he said, adding that only then there can be change and development.
He also called on the people and the civil organisations of the district to work in close co-ordination with the Deputy Commissioner who is the head of the district administration.
Speaking as guest of honour of the function, Harekrishna pointed out that of all the various schemes launched by the Government of India for the welfare of the students, the Government of Manipur is really concern about the Mid-Day Meal Scheme and feels that denial of its benefit to the young students is a crime.
In the first session of the academic programme today, principal of Blue Star Academy, Churachandpur Dr Dalian Haokip presented talk on the topic of 'Role of private institution in the development of tribal education in Manipur'.
On the second and concluding day tomorrow, former ATSUM president Dr John Pulamte would speak on the topic of 'Tribal education in Manipur: Problems and options' in the morning session while senior advocate of Gauhati High Court Samuel on 'Tribal rights and reservation in Manipur Problems and options' in the afternoon session.
Delegates of various student organisations based in the hill districts of Manipur are participating in the programme.
Imphal, Nov 24 : The Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) has alleged that some leaders of the agitating students' bodies–who have put the career of the students in peril in the name of campaigning for the right to life–have taken professional examinations conducted by MU.
A statement issued by the president of DESAM, LC Santosh today said that this shows the mindset of the agitating students who only think for their selfish end without caring for others.
It stated that the careers of other students are equally important like them.
People have to mull over the matter.
He said that the Apunba Lup and the three students' bodies, AMSU, MSF, and KSA have reduced the people's agitation against the Khwairamband incident into an agitation against the people.
He said that the un-thoughtful act of the three students' bodies in protest against the July 23 BT Road incident has rendered the people to turn against the agitation which compels the government to take more advantage of the situation.
The agitation is paving the way for the dawn of a 'depression government' by extending more support to the depressed government.It alleged the agitating bodies of supporting the 'police-raj'.
The acts of the three student bodies and the Apunba Lup are testimony that they are severing the suppression of the already depressed people.
Stating that DESAM has always stood against the violation of rights, fake encounter and atrocities committed by the police and the Army, the statement asserted that it is equally important for all people to stop the rights violations and atrocities.
But it is wrong to reduce the students to scapegoat in the agitation against fake encounters and rights violation.
The ongoing agitation is like terrorists taking students as hostages and killing them for not fulfilling their ransom demands.
It stated that it is justifiable that all sections of the society including the students took part in the agitation.
But turning against the students by denying their studies based on the justification would not bring any solution to the problem.
DESAM has clearly realised the expected outcome over the success and failure of the civil societies' agitation and what impression the government would have on the civil society organisations.
It noted that the failure of the agitation and the civil society organisations is a defeat of the people.
DESAM has taken its decision after realising all the things.
It is easier to start a war and participate in a war than winning the war or bringing an end to it.
In connection with the agitation against the Khwairamband incident, DESAM doesn't remain neither as an observer from outside the boundary of the agitation nor it acts as a judge.
The students' body supported the agitation.
The point with the DESAM is that the strategy or line of approach adopted should be to mobilise the people in order to ensure success with the participation of the whole people.
The agitating parties should now think on how to further the agitation.
They have to seek way in order to engage all sections of the people in the agitation, it stated.
It also derided the agitating parties for presenting themselves as champions through the media, calling bandh through telephones, issuing threats to schools' authorities, fearing the police lathi, fearing to be booked under NSA and serving jail term but who claimed to launch an agitation to secure right to life.
It urged the agitating parties to make it public that the agitation could not bring a solution.
It stated that DESAM is not against the agitation.
But it is standing against the process of turning future of the society into darkness by banning education.
The students' body will go with any organisations or individuals whether they be army, police militants, if they have similar aspiration to make education a free zone, to develop and improve education sector, and usher in quality education.
Stating that India won independence from the British rule after enjoying the benefits of education, the statement asserted that education is a deciding factor of life and death.
It noted that anybody raised without education is morally deprived be they in politics, bureaucratic hierarchy, police or any armed forces organisation.
Unwanted happenings in the society are taking places due to the presence of numerous such kind of people.
The ongoing agitation is termed 'agitational terrorism' as the agitators have resorted to ban class, issuing threats to school authorities, bus and van associations, and burning down schools, the statement justified.
On the usage of the term 'agitational terrorism,' the statement said that the term is an English vocabulary whether it be used by Indian soldiers.
Instead of arguing the usage of the term, the three students' bodies have first to introspect whether their act amounts to terrorism or not.
The frequent statement used by the student bodies like "ready to launch further agitations," "any outcome will be the individuals' responsibility" etc would be reduced to proverbial 'Bausing's left arm,' who fell flat before using his left arm in the boxing ring.
Rule of law would not be in force if the rule of law is violated by the students' bodies.
Further, the statement also urged the three students' bodies to restrain from arguing their points in an ad hominem way.
It stated that DESAM is very much able to pour diatribes on any individual.
Kolkata, Nov 21 Students of a high school today blocked the state highway near Lalgarh for nearly four hours in protest against the alleged torture of a schoolmate by joint forces.
Agitated students of Bikash Bharati High School blocked State Highway-9 at 11 am demanding immediate release of Lalit Mahato, a student of class-X who was detained by the joint forces, and apology from the district administration, police said.
The incident took place early in the morning when the groups of joint forces, who were returning after a gunfight with maoists at Joyalbahanga forest near Jhargram, held Mahato and two other students, who were going to take board examination, for questioning, they said, adding the security personnel left the two but took Mahato to the camp for further interrogation.
Manipur: Four lakh students, protesting against extra judicial killing may lose academic year
Around four lakh students may lose out on an academic year in Manipur, following a boycott of classes since September 9 in protest of the alleged extra judicial killing of a youth.
The All Manipur Students’ Union, Manipur Students’ Federation and Kangleipak Students’ Association had declared a boycott of all Educational Institutions in Manipur in response to the killing that occured in July this year.
The mass protest has continued for over two months and the student bodies are refusing to budge until their demands for Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh’s resignation is met.
Parents and educationists in the state blame the AMSU and government for the plight of these students.
"If classes are boycotted further, we do not know what will happen to the fate of lakhs of students in the state and thousands of them may also lose the opportunity to apply for professional courses next year," said a principal of a reputed government institution.
CCpur, November 20 : Smart Card facility was launched at the District Transport Office (DTO), Churachandpur located at Tuibuong today.
The inaugural function of the District Transport smart card was graced by Phungzathang Tonsing Minister of Power, Horti & Sc.Tech, TN Haokip Minister of PHED/IPR/TSM and L Jayentakumar Minister of Transport, Education as the chief guest, guest of honour and functional president respectively.
Speaking on the occasion, T Phungzathang recalled that the transport smart card has been initiated during his tenure as Minister of Transport in 2006 .
Ministers L Jayenta Kumar, Phungzathang Tonsing and TN Haokip at CCpur function
The state is not lacking behind in IT, he said and expressed hope that launching transport smart card will surely benefit the security of the people of Churachandpur district.
He said, use of smart card in issuing driving licenses and registration certificates will prevent frauds from forging driving licenses.
The minister further observed that the DTO building should be made smarter.
If Churachanpur is described as the second town of Manipur next to Imphal West district, facilities to suit the description should also be given.
TN Haokip observed that Churachandpur is the second district which enjoys the smart card facilities after Imphal.
He said, the same facility would be launched in other districts soon.
Eighty fire extinguishers were presented to various government high schools located in Churachandpur District on the occasion.
Minister L Jayentakumar urged the public of the district to maintain peace and harmony so that developmental activities can be witnessed in times to come too.
Transport Director, Devesh Dewal was also present on the occasion.
M Songgel Youth Club, Tollen Cultural Troupe and Young Paite Association (YPA) Cultural Troupe, Zenhang Lamka have presented cultural dances on the occasion.
| Jamir turns nostalgic at Assam Valley School’s Founder’s Day meet, recalls student days |
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| Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir (right) hands over the Best House trophy on the Assam Valley School campus in Tezpur on Sunday. Picture by Eastern Projections |
Balipara (Tezpur), Nov. 16: For once, the suave and sophisticated Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir was nostalgic, as he remembered the school building where he started his education back home in Nagaland.
The building of his school was a simple, kutcha house without electricity while the one he graced this weekend is one of the most modern of educational institutions in the country — the Assam Valley School (AVS).
“I really wish I was young and studying in this school,” Jamir said in his address as the chief guest of the 14th Founders’ Day celebrations of the school on its campus, located at the picturesque Hatichura tea estate, around 27km from Tezpur.
The three-day celebrations concluded yesterday.
The former Nagaland chief minister recalled his own school to highlight the contrast and told the attentive students, “Your school is, perhaps, the best school with all the amenities and a beautiful ambience. I was thrilled to see the vast playfield, the sprawling green campus and the aesthetically built building.”
Jamir felt that India’s transition to a knowledge-based economy would require a talented pool of manpower and the products of AVS are sure to fit into the role.
Maj. Gen. R.S. Chand, the GOC of the Tezpur-based 4 Corps, was equally impressed by the sporting talent in AVS and was confident that it would be able to produce Sachin Tendulkars, P.T. Ushas and Abhinav Bindras.
Gen. Chand — the chief guest of the annual athletic championship held yesterday morning — said he was highly impressed by the sporting spirit of the students and predicted that they would make the country proud in the near future.
The AVS, founded in 1995 by the Williamson Magor Education Trust, is rated among the 20 best residential schools in the country and is the only exclusive co-educational boarding school affiliated to the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination.
The headmaster of the school, D.N.A. Mountford, said in his Founders’ Day lecture, “At AVS, we are committed to the building up of young people for a globally-connected life in the 21st century.”
That the headmaster was right could be gauged from the all-round talent that the students of the school showcased. It started with an exhibition where the students presented fascinating model on various issues from China’s increasing aggression over Arunachal Pradesh to the Naxalite problem in the country.
The dramatic skills of the students were at its best when they staged Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
Assamese actress Zerifa Wahid, among the special invitees, said she could hardly believe that such young students could play the role of tough characters with so much passion and skill.
The celebrations ended with an athletic meet where students showed their skills in different disciplines.
The school went on a vacation for a week from yesterday. “The vacation is a much deserved break for students after the month-long preparations to make the 14th Founders’ Day celebration a great success,” a faculty member of the school said.
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Imphal, Nov. 13: Manipur today distributed fire extinguishers to schools to save educational institutions from being torched.
Education minister L. Jayentakumar Singh today distributed two fire extinguishers each to 10 schools in Hiyanglam Assembly constituency of Thoubal district during a tour of the constituency to assess the academic situation and security measures.
The minister accompanied by works minister K. Ranjit Singh and local MLA E. Dwijamani Singh also visited Langmeidong High School in the constituency, which was set on fire by suspected supporters of the class boycott campaign on the night of November 10.
So far five schools have been torched in different places in the valley areas to counter the government’s efforts to reopen schools.
Education institutions have been closed since September 9 after the All Manipur Students Union, Manipuri Students Federation and Kangleipak Students Association launched a class boycott campaign as part of the ongoing agitation against the July 23 firing in Imphal city in which passerby Rabina Devi and former militant Ch. Sanjit were killed in an alleged fake encounter.
The government strengthened security for the educational institutions and appealed to guardians to send their children back to school and college. However, despite the appeal student attendance remained very poor in most of the institutions.
Jayentakumar Singh said fire extinguishers would be provided to all educational institutions and a police outpost opened in Langmeidong to guard schools and colleges in the area.
The minister said repairing of the damaged schools would be completed soon. The ministerial team visited a few educational institutions in the constituency to see the academic situation and security. He said he found some schools running regular classes.
The Government Recognised Private Schools Welfare Association has convened a meeting of founders, principals and teachers of the private schools on November 15 at Hatta in Imphal city to discuss the ongoing academic situation.
Imphal, November 14 : Mao Students' Union (MSU) has expressed strong resentment that Government of Manipur is yet to provide security to the Tadubi branch of State Bank of India.
Speaking to some mediapersons during a recent inspection tour of Mao and nearby villages, MSU president Lokho Ojo Mao said due to constant appeals by various organisations of mao and nearby areas an official team of SBI conveyed its willingness to establish a branch office at a suitable location in between Mao and Maram.
Consequently spot location surveys were jointly conducted by mao area organisations and the SBI officials that resulted in identifying a private building at near Tadubi bazar which is also close to the National Highway 39 .
Informing that the SBI officials were also impressed in finding the double storey building which is flanked by a post of the Assam Rifles at about 200 metre distance and Tadubi police station even more nearer at about 150 metres, Lokho also said the bank officials pledged commitment in the setting up of the SBI branch.
However, joy of the locals that the long awaited bank branch would be a reality was short-lived as the State Government snubbed public proposal to provide at least 15 personnel exclusively for duty in the SBI branch.
He opined that refusal of the state authorities to assign requisite number of security personnel at the bank is yet another manifestation that Government of Manipur is undermining interest of people in Mao-Maram areas as well as denying economic rights of the locals.
the MSU functionary pointed out that benefits supposed to be reaped by the local workforce engaged in welfare programmes including NREGS is insignificant as the people have to withdraw wage money from either Maram or Senapati district headquarters.
Recounting that a memorandum proposing security personnel provision for the SBI branch had already been submitted to the Chief Minister, Lokho cautioned that failure to redress problems faced by the Mao-Maram people would compel resorting to intense agitation.
AASU’s Human Chain along the Indo–Bangla Border
Human Chain along the Indo - Bangla Border
Thousands people from various parts of Dhubri district recently thronged to the Indo-Bangla International Border at Lakhimari village under the Sonahat Border Security Force outpost to form a human chain in protest against the unabated infiltration across the Bangladesh border and demanding complete seal of Assam-Bangladesh border.
This human chain along the border, however, reminded the villagers of one such human chain programme that was organized by BJP at the Satrasal border, a few kilometres away from the Lakhimari border and spearheaded by Uma Bharati in 1994.
A cross section of people irrespective of caste, creed and religion and a large number of students assembled at the Indo-Bangla Trade Centre Ground.
Romoni Adhikari, an elderly villager of Tokrerchara - III village calls the human chain programme an alarm bell on the porous Indo-Bangla border which is not reaching the ears of the Central and state government.
“The situation is getting worse day by day and things being as they are, the Central government is paying the least attention to the border villages,” Adhikari said.
Aftab Uddin, a teacher of a venture school in Ratiadoh area under Golokganj police station of Dhubri district who went to the Lakhimari border to attend the human chain programme said that the border has been left to the border security forces and nobody knows what is happening there as after the sun sets, no one is allowed to venture on the border road. “So villagers do not know how the Bangladeshis are entering Indian territory and who are involved in trans-border smuggling including cattle. They (BSF) are the sentinels on the border but after 62 years of partition from India, infiltration continues into India through the porous border”, Uddin resentfully stated.
Speaking in a open meeting at the Indo-Bangla Trade Centre Ground, AASU advisor Samujjal Bhattacharya lambasted the state and Central governments for their total failure in sealing the Indo-Bangla border and as a result of which, not only do the people of Bangladesh have free access to Assam but also many a fundamental militant organization has transformed this border into their haven.
Bhattacharya also said that though it is matter of national security as the border remains unprotected but despite their best
Participants of the human chain programme
efforts and the people’s support, the Centre is not taking the thing seriously and no political party has shown interest in solving this problem of unabated infiltration across the border.
“We will continue to fight till the whole Assam-Bangla border is sealed and farmers whose lands fall behind the barbed fencing are compensated,” Bhattacharya said.
Addressing the meeting, AASU president, Sankar Prosad Roy said that the human chain programme at the Lakhimari border has been organized in protest against the slow pace of barbed fencing works in the border and unabated infiltration across the border.
Roy said that it is almost 24 years since the Assam Accord was signed between the Central government and AASU but many a clausesof the Accord is yet to be implemented.
“The barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangla border, first erected in 1987, proved to be redundant as it could neither stop infiltration nor trans-border movement of insurgent groups through the porous areas of the border,” Roy said.
Roy also said that AASU wants the sealing of the 272 kms Indo-Bangla border in Dhubri and Karimganj sector with barbed fencing.
While expressing deep resentment over the poor quality of barbed fencing works, Roy said that AASU is raising the demand for the compensation against land which fell behind the barbed fencing.
He said that owners of the l1000 acres (approx) of land can not go to their land freely for cultivation as there is restriction imposed by the Border Security Forces. So it is better for the government to acquire the land and compensate the poor farmers who lost almost everything during the partition of the country.
Roy claimed that renewed movement against the foreigners would remind of the Assam Movement of 80’s which began with a human chain programme from Dhubri.
Roy added that a similar human chain programme will be held at the Karimganj sector soon.
Meyanungsang Kichu
Dimapur, November 6 (MExN): A Naga scholar Meyanungsang Kichu, a final year PhD researcher from Macquarie University in Sydney, on October 2 won the first prize in a poster presentation competition by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Incorporated. The institute had conducted its annual one-day symposium on Natural Products Chemistry, in the University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales. A total of one hundred and fifty participants from universities and companies around Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, attended the conference.
Meyanungsang Kichu, who is currently working on Nagaland medicinal plants, won the first prize in the best poster presentation competition. The prize was awarded for his work entitled “TLC-bioautography-guided isolation of antibacterial compounds from a Nagaland medicinal plant.” It describes his research on the isolation and identification of 11 known compounds with biological activity against pathogenic microorganisms from a plant being used by Chungtia villagers for treating skin related infections.
This work is part of his PhD thesis on Nagaland medicinal plants. His major objectives are to systematically document first-hand ethno-medicinal plant knowledge of Chungtia village and to apply this knowledge to identify medicinally important compounds following targeted chemical and biological studies. For this project, he has established a collaborative research partnership with Chungtia Senso Mokokchung Town (CSMT) and Macquarie University for best ethical practices. They follow the principles of the Convention of Biological Diversity Act and the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia, to conduct research with indigenous people.
Associate Professors Joanne Jamie, Jim Kohen and Subramanyam Vemulpad, who supervised Kichu’s research work, are very proud of his achievements and his commitment to help his community in Nagaland. Kichu has presented his research findings at international and national conferences in Australia and India. Prior to pursuing his research at Macquarie University, Australia, he had worked as a lecturer in Biotechnology at St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore.
IMPHAL, Nov 5 – Even as the All Manipur Students Union (AMSU), Manipuri Students Federation (MSF) and Kangleipak Students Alliance (KSA) have affirmed on Tuesday not to resume classes, the Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) has resolved to resume classes immediately in a meeting held here on Monday. The student bodies have been boycotting classes since September 9.
In the meeting, DESAM has also resolved to form an organisation comprising of 20 clubs which would be responsible in taking up steps for the resumption of the classes immediately. Thestudents ’ body also resolved not to use education as a means of agitation and to make education free zone. They also stated that the civil society organisations should show its solidarity in the move of DESAM for the resumption of the classes.
About 500 people hailing from 50 social organisations attended today’s meeting, out of which 450 individuals were not in favour of the ongoing boycott.
It may be recalled that in the wake of the July 23 fake encounter incident the classes have been boycotted by All Manipur Students’ Union (AMSU), Manipuri Students’ Federation (MSF) and Kangleipak Students’ Association (KSA) since September 9 as part of the ongoing mass movement under the aegis of the Apunba Lup demanding the resignation of Chief Minister, O Ibobi Singh. The threestudents’ organisations are agitating against the July 23 ‘fake’ encounter incident.
It is worth noting that the All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) has also been advocating for the resumption of classes. ATSUM had convened a public meeting on October 24 in this regard.
On Sunday, the agitating AMSU, MSF and KSA had warned any organisation or individual attempting to sabotage the ongoing ‘peoples’ movement including the boycotting of classes. The threestudents’ bodies pledged not to allow the classes to be resumed unless the State Government obliges the demands of the organisations.
Meanwhile, the Inpui (Kabui) Students’ Union has said the closure of educational institutions as a mark of protest is not right. The Inpui students’ body said that the closure of the educational institutions has caused irreparable loss to the students’ community.
Kohima, Nov. 1: The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has demanded the immediate intervention of Governor Nikhil Kumar, who is also the chief rector of Nagaland University, in the reservation system of the university.
The federation said the university authorities have violated the reservation policy of the ministry of personnel and pensions of the Centre.
NSF president Mutsikoyo Chakhesang said the reservation quota in the Nagaland University is not in accordance with the office memorandum of the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions department.
The memorandum, issued in July 5, 2005, states that Nagaland can avail of 45 per cent reservation in the group C and D posts in any central office.
“A recent advertisement for recruitment to various posts in Nagaland University show a violation of the policy,” he said recently.
He said in contrast with the other states, more than 80 per cent of the population of Nagaland included the Schedule Tribes.
The Naga students said unless the reservation quota was increased, the educated unemployed would be deprived of opportunities.
The federation also lamented that all the vacant posts were not included in the recent advertisement for non-teaching posts under Nagaland University.
They urged the governor to consider the sentiment of the Naga students.
The Nagaland University Teachers Association has also charged vice-chancellor K. Kannan of making illegal appointments in the university.
It urged the state government and Centre to intervene and stop such practices.
The NSF has taken exception to the backdoor appointment of teachers in government higher secondary schools across the state. It said the state government has already appointed over 113 teachers for nine schools without conducting interviews.
The NSF’s president said the current system of appointments deprived qualified and capable persons of their rights. It has urged the state government to cancel all such backdoor appointments immediately and conduct interviews for the posts.
It also demanded an immediate explanation from the commissioner of school education, Banuo Z. Jamir.
The federation said if corrective measures were not taken immediately, they would resort to their own course of action in the larger interest and welfare of Naga students.
Imphal, November 2 : The Standing Committee of the Kuki Students' Organisation (KSO) has dissolved the Central Cabinet of the KSO General Headquarters in toto as per article No 10 of the KSO constitution and fixed the date of election of the KSO Central Committee, a statement issued by the secretary of the KSO Standing Committee, Lunkhothang informed.
The standing committee shall hold the office of the KSO with immediate effect until a new Central Cabinet of the KSO General Headquarters is duly constituted, it stated.
The committee also retained Paotinthang Lupheng, the incumbent education secretary as its office secretary for the whole duration of KSO GHQ election.
According to the statement, nomination may be filed from November 9 to November 16 while the election date has been fixed on November 17 .
The election will be held at Kuki Inn, Imphal.
