DIMAPUR, MAY 18 (MExN): The Pungro Area College Students’ Union (PACSU), the frontal student organization of Pungro sub-division, has taken serious note over the deteriorating educational system at Government Higher Secondary School, Pungro.
It stated that the government educational institution in question has been confounded by shortage of teaching faculty and the dilapidated infrastructure. The PACSU during an inspection had discovered that the school was running with no teacher for Political Science and Sociology while for English, History and Education; there was only one teacher each to run the show.
The school has been functioning without a Political Science teacher since the up-gradation to higher secondary and the students were compelled to bear the brunt. Left with no choice, a local arrangement was made by NGOs to employ a teacher to teach Political Science till last year, the students’ union informed.
A representation to the Director of School Education was also submitted by the union stating the aforementioned grievances. However, the department has paid no heed to the appeal so far, the union alleged. Adding to the woes, the department concerned recently transferred out a lone sociology teacher without any alternate arrangement, it added.
The students’ union also pointed out that the pass percentage of HSLC under Pungro Centre has improved in leaps and bound. As per the HSLC result 2017, the number of matric passed students under Pungro centre is 152. When the growth of the matric students in Pungro is exponential; the depression of teachers in GHSS Pungro is a vivid disparity,” the students’ union lamented.
In the light of above mentioned facts and circumstances, the union has demanded immediate deployment of at least two (2) subject teachers against each subject as it is in other parts of Nagaland. Failing to comply with the demand, the “department shall bear any untoward eventuality which may occur due to the outburst of students’ prolonged outcry,” the students’ union has warned.
