Mon: The Mon District Planning & Development Board meeting was held under the chairmanship of Angau I Thou, IAS on February 15 at DC’s conference hall, Mon.
DC Mon directs department concerned to make alternative arrangement
The house had lengthy discussion regarding admission problems at GHS Mon and Aboi in class 9. More than 400 students, 300 in Aboi and 100 in Mon are yet to be admitted in Class 9. In this regard, the ADC Aboi informed the house that 480 students have been already admitted in class 9 alone while around 300 students are yet to be admitted in GHS, Aboi. He asserted that admission of the remaining students is impossible because there are inadequate teachers, classrooms and furniture in the school. He also asserted that some recently upgraded schools have less students but excess teachers and suggested for internal arrangement of teachers in the district.
The house had lengthy discussion regarding admission problems at GHS Mon and Aboi in class 9. More than 400 students, 300 in Aboi and 100 in Mon are yet to be admitted in Class 9. In this regard, the ADC Aboi informed the house that 480 students have been already admitted in class 9 alone while around 300 students are yet to be admitted in GHS, Aboi. He asserted that admission of the remaining students is impossible because there are inadequate teachers, classrooms and furniture in the school. He also asserted that some recently upgraded schools have less students but excess teachers and suggested for internal arrangement of teachers in the district.
In this connection, the DC said that no children should be deprived or denied admission in any class as per the RTE Act and appealed to the administrative officers, NGOs and the department concerned to make alternative arrangement for admission of all students. She said that influx of students from rural to urban school indicates that the students want quality education and she stressed on the need of quality education for all round development of the district. In order to impart quality education she said besides VEC and the teachers, parents too should take equal responsibility.
To meet the shortage of teachers she directed the DEO and SDEOs to prepare enrollment of teachers and students of each school’s class wise for internal arrangement within the district and report immediately. She also directed the administrative officers to prepare necessary furniture from the 13 Finance Commission to resolve furniture problems in the schools where required.
Earlier, the DC in her address thanked the members for smooth conduct of Republic Day celebration 2014 at Mon. In connection with the ensuing Lok Sabha election 2014, she directed all the HoDs not to grant earn leaves to their employees. She also directed the HoDs to submit the list of the employees along with their attached vehicle on or before February 20 for election duty. For this, she asked the members to keep their respective vehicles in good condition. The CMO, Mon Dr. UK Konyak has informed the house that the 2nd phase of the Polio Campaign would be held on February 23 and requested the DPDB members to extend their cooperation for successful conduct of the polio campaign in the district.
