Students, parents and guardians gather outside the school.
Police arrest BBMS headmaster
Thirteen students, who have not been able to appear the ongoing HSLC exam, which commenced Tuesday, have demanded for justice. The students, from Blooming Bud Montessori School (BBMS), Dimapur, have not been issued HSLC admit cards from their school authority.
The proprietor cum headmaster of the school, Dilip Deb (48) has been running the school without affiliation from the Nagaland Board of School Education. He was arrested on Monday night by Dimapur police, after student organisations filed an FIR.
On Tuesday morning, irate students damaged furniture inside the school and urged student leaders to find an alternative way for them to appear the exams, even at a later date, without having to lose the current academic year.
Representatives from the NSF, DNSU and DSSU met with the students, parents and guardians at the school. The student leaders appealed for patience and assured them that they would take up the matter till a logical conclusion is reached.
Addressing media persons, DNSU President, K. Mhachio Lotha said that the union would not compromise on education at any cost. He informed that the accused headmaster had conducted Class 9 board exams last year, without affiliation with the NBSE. Lotha added that the accused conducted the exams one hour behind the given schedule, telling students that it was their study time. During that one hour, he would run around exam centres to somehow acquire the question paper and conduct exams at his school with xerox copies of the question papers, it was added.
The DNSU president said that the headmaster had collected Rs 4000 as admission fee for Classes 8, 9 and 10.
NSF Vice President, Joseph Nguori said that the Federation would see to it that proper action is taken against the headmaster and asserted that NSF would pursue the matter for the welfare of the affected students.
NSF Finance Secretary, Shikavi stated that the issue would be pursued till the last and appealed for students, parents and guardians to be more vigilant in the future.
Along with the 10th standard students, students in the 8th, 9th and 10th standard have also been affected. The accused has confessed that he was yet to get permission from the NBSE to run classes till the 8th standard.
For the current academic year, there are 15 students in the 8th standard, 16 in the 9th standard and 23 in the 10th standard. The School has been shut down by the student organizations until further notice.
