IMPHAL, May 20: The Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur has said that teachers alone are not responsible for awful pass percentage in the board exams in the State.
The Education minister, concerned commissioner, director and other officials like the ZEO, AI, DI among others are also as much responsible for the outcome as the teachers, said the student body`™s president M Angamba today.
Speaking to media persons at their office, Angamba said the Education minister and the officials concerned are as much punishable as the teachers for the awful pass percentage.
The State government had yesterday issued an order deciding to serve notice of voluntary retirement under a Voluntary Retirement Scheme to teachers of government schools who fail to produce any successful students in the Board and Council conducted exams. The government order had also announced several other immediate actions deemed necessary by the government after considering the poor performances of some government high schools and higher secondary schools in the recent Higher Secondary Examination 2015 and HSLC Examination, 2015.
Angamba said the government`™s step to punish irresponsible teachers is laudable, however, if the teachers are alone put at stake it could create much dissent.
He said even though the government has appointed many teachers under RMSA and SSA, schools in the peripheral areas and interior parts of the State are still facing acute shortages of teachers.
Demands have been made to the government to fill up these shortages, but to no avail, he added.
The department is also unable to provide the required infrastructures to the schools, he said stating that the department and the Education minister should also be held accountable for the bad result.
He said the authorities never listen to the demands of the students to fill the shortage of teachers and infrastructure and now they want to blame the teachers alone.
The concern minister and the department continue to only emphasis on the needs of the schools lying in the State capital, while ignoring all the needs of the schools in the interior and peripheral areas, he continued.
Angamba also appealed to the concern authorities to take action against MLAs, ministers, officials who get involve in transferring of teachers according to their whims.
DESAM secretary general P Premchandra said that concern authorities should also be responsible for the low pass percentage in both the Class X and Class XII examinations of 2015.
Providing statistics, he said in the COHSEM conducted class XII exam this year, 63 government schools, 34 aided schools and seven private schools recorded `zero`™ pass percentage.
Of 305 students appearing the Class XII examination at Ibotonsana Higher Secondary School only 90 passed, at RamLal Paul Higher Secondary School only four out of 42 appearing students passed, at Lamlong Hr Sec School 12 out of 50 appearing students passed, at Andanda Singh Hr Sec School out of 334 students appearing only 41 passed, at Nambol Hr Sec School out of 124 students appearing only 31 passed, he said.
He continued only one student passed out of 31 appearing students in Nilapadana Higher Secondary School, and only 10 students out of 134 students appearing for the examination passed in Model Hr Sec, Takyel.
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