129 Government High Schools downgraded
DIMAPUR, JANUARY 30 (MExN): CLP leader Tokheho Yepthomi has revealed that the Government of Nagaland has downgraded 129 Government High Schools.
DIMAPUR, JANUARY 30 (MExN): CLP leader Tokheho Yepthomi has revealed that the Government of Nagaland has downgraded 129 Government High Schools.
Yepthomi, in a press release today, stated that the Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) has “jeopardized the career of thousands of students” by “refusing to accept enrolment of students to Class 9 & 10 from 129 Govt High Schools w.e.f academic session 2014.” The CLP leader reminded that 147 GMS had been upgraded to GHS between 2010 - 2011 under RMSA Program following approval by the Project Approval Board (PAB), Ministry of HRD, Government of India.
“The decision of the NBSE in pursuance of the state govt order dated 5th June 2013 reflects the total apathy of the NPF govt towards the students and their equally worried parents who are being victimized no fault of theirs,” noted Yepthomi, further adding that the “The NPF govt had all along taken credit for mass upgradation of these GMS to GHS and had extracted enough political mileage while going into assembly elections in 2013.” He said that the present plight of students under these 129 GHS should be addressed by the Nagaland State Government as the academic year 2014 has already begun.
“Over the years when hundreds of crores have been received by the state govt under RMSA Program from the centre for its implementation, the decision of the state govt asking the NBSE to stop accepting the enrolment of students for the above mentioned classes portrays the callousness of the state govt which has miserably failed on all fronts,” observed the CLP leader.
On Appointment of Advisors to Municipal and Town Council Elections
The CLP leader, Tokheho Yepthomi, has stated in a press release today that the suspension of the Municipal and Town Council elections since early 2010 by the NPF government has “destroyed the very foundation of these local bodies.” In that, he condemned the State Government contemplating the appointment of Advisors to these bodies again, terming the process “outrightly illegal and undemocratic with scant regards to the wishes of the people.” The NPF government, he stated, has flouted all “established norms to illegally appoint NPF party workers as Chief Advisors and Advisors.” The appointed Advisors function “without any accountability” and have reduced the relevance of these local bodies to “a mere tax collecting agency without any visible development on ground.”
