IMPHAL, Aug 16 NNN: All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) has taken a decision today to launch series of intense agitation including total bandh and blockade in Manipur in the next few days’ time in protest against the state government’s failure to materialise its assurances.
ATSUM president Muan Tombing and its general secretary Vareiyo Shatsang said setting up of a separate commission for the Scheduled Tribe in Manipur which was demanded by the tribal students’ body and assured by the state government, is till yet to be established.
“We had suspended our protest under the code-name ROTO (Reckoning of the Others) earlier after the government had assured to sep up the commission but till date we are yet to see it,” lamented the ATSUM leaders.
The ATSUM leaders also said after the survey was made on the teacher-student ratio in the hill districts, “the state government had made a commitment to recruit the required number of teachers but till date that too was not done”.
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