IMPHAL 16: The fate of Ithai Government High School still looms in uncertainty with the absence of some teachers slowing the educational growth of the students, lamented convener of the School Management Committee, Kh Chinglensana during a press meeting at the Manipur Press Club today.
The press meet was also attended by H Ibohal Meitei, president and Laishram Gobendro general secretary of Parents and Guardians Association, Ithai Government High School; Deben Karam, president and W Sanjit assistant secretary of Ithai Modern Civilisation Club (IMCC).
Chinglensana thanked the Education minister and the director of Education(S) and DESAM for its support in increasing the number of teachers in the school by posting nine more teachers.
At the same time, he claimed that some of the teachers have still failed to attend the school, he alleged.
He further appealed to the authorities to check the frequent transfer and utilization of teachers from the school.
`Frequent Bandhs and Strikes have already affected the attendance of the teachers and deprived the 670 students presently enrolled in the school of quality education`™ said Ibohal Meitei.
After the upgradation of the school under RMSA, the first batch of 10 students appeared in their HSLC exam last year and eight of them passed, while one had to appear compartmental exams and another failed. This is viewed as an encouraging result among the government schools, he added.
However this year due to the acute shortage of teachers and the apathy of the concern authorities, only 14 students out of the 28 cleared the HSLC exam.
`Infact several volunteers tried to bridge the shortage of teachers and assisted in running the school, else it would have been worse`™ said Deben Karam.
Speaking to this reporter over the phone, the head master informed about the background, `The lone English teacher S Monika Devi was utilized at Mukta High School, Moirang. Like wise the MIL teacher S Sunita Devi was utilized at Gokul Jr High School and the Science teacher Priya Manju Goswami was utilized at Tera Kebol High School.
We still lack a Hindi teacher`™ he said.
Providence from the SSA seems to be both insufficient and delayed at all levels. For instance, uniform is provided to only 230 students till date and the headmaster said, `It is not possible to buy a set of uniforms for upper classes at the rate of 400 per student and every year we had to utilize other funds to cover this deficit.
Whereas as demanded by the SSA authorities we continue to furnish utilization report @
400/ student`™, the headmaster continued.
`All the required text books are never provided hence we had to request the parents to buy some of the text books even in the current year`™