DIMAPUR, MAY 25 (MExN): The Dimapur Sumi Students Union (DSSU) today appealed to the Nagaland State Government and the concerned department to establish additional government higher secondary schools and government colleges in Dimapur.
In a press note, the DSSU noted that Dimapur serves as an educational hub for students from all districts of the state. “With only two existing government run institutions with limited intake capacity to accommodate thousands of students seeking admissions,” the DSSU felt the need for establishing additional government run higher secondary schools and government colleges.
It informed that the “trend to study in these two government run institutions has been increasing with each passing year.” “This year itself, the two institutions have had thousands students applying for admissions,” it informed and stated that the school had to conduct a lottery, while the government college opted for admission on merit basis in Arts stream, the cut-off marks being 60% to admit students according to the intake capacity.
Many people choose to migrate to Dimapur with their family and children in search of earning a living, thereby increasing the student population, it stated. The DSSU opined that government institutions, whose purpose is also to serve to the many needy students from poor financial backgrounds, “could not have accommodations for those sections of students even with aggregate pass percentage/marks.”
It therefore urged the government to look into the issue with urgency.
