IMPHAL, May 8: Annoyed at the failure of the authority concerned to fill up vacant posts of teachers in Ithai Khunou Government High School, a large number of students of the school thronged the office of Education Minister at New Secretariat today and threw their uniforms, rice for mid-day meal scheme and textbooks.
The enraged students who came on three buses got down at Nupi Lal Memorial Complex and marched towards the Minister`™s office. They also shouted slogans demanding to fill up the vacant posts at the earliest.
Speaking to media persons, vice president of Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur (DESAM), Arambam Thoithoi demanded the government to take strict action against the six teachers of the school for failing to attend the school in defiance of the government`™s order passed earlier.
He appealed to the concerned teachers to discharge their duty well so that the students do not choose other way of life rather than education.
According to the students, the Ithai Khunou Government High School having around 690 students is facing shortage of teachers for Manipuri, English, Hindi and Sanskrit subject, thereby affecting normal conduct of class in the school.
The government had already been urged to appoint the required teachers but the clarion call of the students has been neglected which is unacceptable, they lamented.
Under RMSA, six teachers were posted at the school which has up to Class X in 2011. Since then the remaining vacant posts of teachers has not been filled. The local club had also appealed to the concerned authorities to fill up the posts but has went in vain, the irate students said.