IMPHAL, December 6: The Manipur People`™s party has asked the State Education minister in a press release whether forcing teachers to stay away from the final examinations of their students is the change he so boldly declared to bring about when assuming charge as the Education minister.
The press release reminded that the minister had impressed everyone by declaring to step down from his post if he didn`™t bring a change in the education system within six months of assuming charge.
MPP is of the opinion that abstention from the BA/BSc semester exams which began on December 4 by the All Manipur Teachers`™ Association is a measure adopted by the teachers to save the State`™s higher education system, it said, adding education is a long term investment that doesn`™t pay dividends overnight.
Roads can be laid and used within a day but this is not the case with education as the results of what one invests today will be apparent only many years later, it said and further asked which teacher wouldn`™t be saddened by the fact that the human development sector which is the backbone of a society is being vitiated by slow poisoning.
The MPP in the press release stated that the teachers might have been compelled to launch the agitation to put a stop to the sector from being gradually corroded day by day and added that the agitating teachers are not using the students but it is the ruling government which can be accused of doing so.
Condemning the government for taking advantage of the genteel natures of the mild mannered teachers, the press release signed by MPP general secretary (publicity) Y Bhim Singh stressed that enforcing the recently issued orders of the government would affect the careers of young teachers who are going to be the pillars of higher education in the future and would be a factor in discouraging bright young people to consider joining the collegiate education system as a career.