Our Correspondent
Kiphire | November 12
A one-day education seminar, organised by the Kiphire Town Students’ Union (KTSSU) on the theme ‘The role of students in present society’, was conducted here on November 8 last at the Zisaji Presidency College auditorium. Hundreds of students from different schools in Kiphire town attended the programme.
Addressing the gathering at the seminar, R Joshua, Chairman of KTC, exhorted the students to be sincere in studies and denounce the culture of tuition, and called it a “civilised extortion.” Shahato, DIS, who also spoke at the seminar, said that practical education should be emphasised “in order to attain complete human.”
Addl. SP Kiphire, Krodi Rhatso, NPS, exhorted the students and shared his view on the town saying, “Kiphire is a mini Nagaland because of unique culture, various tribe and sub tribe co-exist together peacefully, interwoven with unity and peace.” Without discipline and civic sense, education is not complete, he warned, and asked the student community to inculcate it and to be role models.
In the second session, speaking as the resource person, R Y Moses, Lecturer at ZPC, spoke on the topic ‘Education and Social change; a holistic approach to life’. He touched on the various aspects of education “that can make a complete human,” and compared the livese of renowned educationalists and great historians. Kiritong, finance secretary of USSC, also spoke about various areas where students can act as catalysts of change in the present society.
