Dimapur, August 17 (MExN): The Naga Students Federation (NSF) held view that the movement for affiliation of all private schools in the four Naga hill districts of Manipur to the NBSE has been misconstrued by the NSCN-K and the NPCC (I) and to this, the federation lamented that the movement has been responded to by serving of a warning.
“The affiliation movement for all private schools in the four Naga hill districts of Manipur to NBSE initiated by the NSF has been misconstrued by the NSCN(K) and NPCC (I) as an initiative that threatens job opportunities and scholarships for Naga students of present state Nagaland” stated an NSF release issued through its President V Phushika Aomi, Speaker WH Maring and General Secretary K Elu Ndang.
“The Federation has indeed issued a vision statement of the affiliation movement in all local daily newspapers wherein, it clearly emphasizes about the biased education policy and imposition of Meitei Mayek (Meitei script) upon the Naga students by Meitei-dominated Manipur government; as such the affiliations of these private schools to NBSE in no way will encroach the job opportunities and scholarships meant for students within the present state of Nagaland because every state government has its own job reservation policy based on bona fide citizenship of the concern state and scholarship is a union government’s policy directly funded by Union Government’s exchequer” the NSF stated.
The NSF lamented that the issue has bee replied with a warning. “Unfortunately, the attempt to clarify on the affiliation movement by the NSF has been responded by serving warning. It is very discouraging to note that the sincere effort and concerns of the NSF for our Naga brothers and sisters in other parts of Naga homeland is being questioned” it was stated and appealed to all sections of the Naga society not to take otherwise the stand of the Federation on the issue but fervently support the affiliation of schools to NBSE in the interest of the younger generations.
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