Our Correspondent
Kohima | November 14
The Nagaland Education Association (NEA) has recommended that March 27 be observed as Communitisation Day stating that Nagaland is the first to conceptualize the concept.
The Nagaland Communitisation of Public Institutions and Service Act, 2002 was passed by the Nagaland Legislative Assembly which received the assent of the Governor on March 27, 2002 and published in the Nagaland Gazette (Extraordinary) dated April 15, 2002.
Nagaland received the UN Award on June 23, 2008 in New York for the concept of communitisation.
“Nagaland has contributed communitisation to the world. We have not yet contributed much to the world other than communitisation,” he said in speech during a National Education Day programme in Kohima on November 11 last.
Dr Rume said that the world must come to Nagaland to learn communitisation of education.
He said that communitisation of education “is our heritage we worked so hard for it and now we must nurture, preserve and promote it.”
“We must invite the world to come Nagaland to learn communitisation system of education,” he said adding communitisation must earn Nagaland international attention and attract international students and research communities to invest resources from across the world.
He said that many research scholars from across the country are doing research studies today including PhD research studies on communitisation and many state governments in India have also visited Nagaland to study the system of communitisation of education in Nagaland.
He also stressed on the need to create a State Institute of Communitisation Education to generate and accelerate manpower resources, promote research and training “so as to sustain communitisation as a system of education in the state.”
“We must explore Centrally Sponsored Schemes and international financing agencies to come into our aid so as to enable us to translate this dream into a reality,” he said.
Further, Dr Rume emphasized on the need to review communitisation policy to give more powers to the education field officers so as to strengthen the system.
