Akangjungla
Dimapur | June 12
While tracking on the reports of illegal land encroachment at Nagarjan Government Higher Secondary School, Dimapur, many issues affecting the school and the people attached to it has come to surface. In the year 2006, due to excessive encroachment of the school land by private individuals, the school management had resorted to construction of a wall around the school compound to avoid any further land infringement.
“With the management fees collected from the students and teachers and staff’s one day fee deduction we have constructed a protective wall around the school building, repaired the School gate, made around 70 benches, constructed toilets and construction of two more rooms is still on the process”, said a member faculty of GHSS, Nagarjan. “Another reason for taking this local action is because the Government is not giving any fund for the school innovation”, he further added.
Moreover, the housing quarters of the school teachers are being illegally occupied by private individuals or by the teachers themselves on the evidence of patta issued in their name.
The quarter of the School Principal, R. Amongla Jamir has also been already occupied illegally but to her surprise on taking necessary action from her side, she was challenged and summoned to the court for hearing on May 17, 2007, which was however, cancelled. “I am not sure whether the case has been cancelled temporarily or permanently”, R. Amongla Jamir stated with uncertainty.
The School authority had earlier removed a garbage dumping tank which was constructed attached to the school boundary by DMC, stopped some people from cutting down trees from the School compound and with the support of the teachers and students removed other building materials which was meant for some construction on the road just outside the School gate. The present DEO that is standing tall in Nagarjan has reportedly been constructed on the encroached plot of GHSS.
In connection to the land encroachment issue, the new Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur, Abhijit Sinha in an interactive session with the media persons, has strongly asserted that ‘One has to be firm enough’ as land in Nagaland is more transferable , unlike other places where land pattern and taxes are involved. However, “one has to be strong enough’.
At the present juncture, the School gripping so many problems has proved its worth by producing 83% passed result in HSLC and 91% (Arts) and 71% (Science) in HSSLC examinations. However, with little or no practical accomplishment from the DC, it is yet too early to come to a concrete conclusion or to decide the fate of the School at question.
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