Morung Express News
Sangphur Village | May 20
Parliamentary Secretary for Municipal Affairs and Economics & Statistics, R Tohanba, on May 19 inaugurated a new Government Primary School at Kewongthu Sangphur in Sangphur Village, Tuensang district.
Addressing the inaugural programme, the Parliamentary Secretary said after the government has gifted a new school to the village, it was now upto the Village Education Committee (VEC) and villagers as a whole to take proper care of the school.
“Unless there is co-ordination between the VEC, teachers and parents, the purpose of opening a new school would be defeated,” Tohanba said. To teachers, the parliamentary secretary said the government was giving handsome remuneration to teach the students. He however regretted that when it comes to results and deliverance of quality education, government schools are lagging far behind private schools whose teachers subsist on minimum salary.
This should serve as a reminder to government teachers and that they should to introspect on reasons behind government schools not living upto expectations.
He also requested SDEO Shamator to nurture the school so that even remote villagers get quality education right from the lower primary stage.
Tohanba further appealed to parents to personally monitor their children so that they do not indulge in mischief or other activities which would vitiate peaceful environment of the school.
Co-ordinator, ERBC Shamator, Lakhum; second GB of Sangphur village, R Yanthrong and Z Royim, GB, also delivered short speeches. Earlier, pastor Sangphur Baptist Church, Rev. Lanu, offered the dedicatory prayer. The programme was chaired by teacher in-charge, GPS Kewongthu Sangphur, K Rhakiumong.
EAC Shamator, Vejoyi Swuro, also attended the inauguration programme.
