{"id":6422,"date":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/337746876a12942019da2ed498780b62"},"modified":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"textbook-scarcity-persists-students-leaders-fight-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/1999\/11\/29\/textbook-scarcity-persists-students-leaders-fight-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbook scarcity persists, students leaders fight on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL, May 12 (NNN): Intensifying its protests against the unavailability of school textbooks in the market, four students `\u2122 unions of the State`\u201cAll Manipur Students`\u2122 Union (AMSU), Democratic Students`\u2122 Association Manipur (DESAM), Manipur Students`\u2122 Federation (MSF) and Kangleipak Students`\u2122 Association (KSA)`\u201ctoday lambasted the State government of playing with the life of the students.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media at the office of AMSU in DM College campus at about 5 pm today the students`\u2122 bodies said that their stake-outs and vigils and a tip-off by a teacher led to the discovery on May 11 of some 6000 school books being stashed away clandestinely inside Shakhi Devi High School in Uripok.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as the students`\u2122 activists went to the school to survey and ascertain the fact, police had intervened, they said.<\/p>\n<p>They complained that even as a summer vacation was supposed to begin next month, schools in Imphal valley have declared the vacation prematurely, depriving the students of education.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the government is only interested in recruiting teachers and not concern about textbooks not being available in the market speaks a lot about the rot in the education system and corruption, the students`\u2122 activists said. `Printing of textbooks is hardly profitable while recruiting teachers involve exchange of fat money within the government,`\u009d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Romen of AMSU, Thoithoi of DESAM, Anash Shah of MSF and Nanao of KSA were present in the press meet today.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~4\/OTZjmDfcDuI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/OTZjmDfcDuI\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/OTZjmDfcDuI\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, May 12 (NNN): Intensifying its protests against the unavailability of school textbooks in the market, four students `\u2122 unions of the State`\u201cAll Manipur Students`\u2122 Union (AMSU), Democratic Students`\u2122 Association&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/05\/textbook-scarcity-persists-students-leaders-fight-on\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[330,41],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}