The Government High School Ngoungchung has been functioning without a Headmaster or Assistant Headmaster since 2016, according to the SRSU. (Morung Photo)
SRSU demands deputation of teaching staff in Sangyochung range
Morung Express News
Tuensang | August 30
For the past 14 years, the Government Middle School in Yali village in the Sangyochung range of Tuensang district has been running without Science and Mathematics subject teachers.
The school was upgraded from a Government Primary School to GMS in 2008.
Similarly, the Government Middle School in Longtang village which was upgraded in the year 2013 has been running without English and Hindi subject teachers for nine years.
In this connection, the Sangyochung Range Students’ Union (SRSU) stated that it is due to such reasons, “the students are not getting good marks in those subjects and are unable to pursue their further studies.”
According to the SRSU, it conducted its 2nd phase of Educational Tour on August 26 and 27 in Khudei, Buthenbou, Haak, Nakshou, Yali and Longtang villages including Government High School, Ngoungchung in Tuensang district. Over the course of the tour, it was found out that the two schools did not have adequate teaching staff.
The union also found out that the Government High School, Ngoungchung which incidentally is also the only high school in the entire region, is running without a Headmaster or Assistant Head Master since the year 2016.
In this regard, the SRSU stated that it had made an appeal to the Principal Secretary, Department of School Education, Kohima in the year 2019 to depute a Headmaster at GHS, Ngoungchung.
However, their appeals fell on ‘deaf’ ears and further appeal was also forwarded to the Advisor, Department of School Education, Kohima. “Our appeal still stands unattended and unnoticed,” they stated.
N Moa, Executive Chairman, SRSU expressed that, “Over the past five years, only two HSLC candidates have passed and the school has produced more nil results. We are appalled at the treatment given to us and it is the concerned authority’s sheer negligence leading to such drastic results.”
In this context, the SRSU stated that it has resolved not to tolerate such ‘lackadaisical’ treatment at a time when focus on the basic educational rights of children is the need of the hour. They cautioned the concerned department to depute full-fledged teaching staffs for the concerned subjects and headmasters and assistant headmasters before the end of this academic year.
If its appeals are not heard, the SRSU is ready and will be compelled to undertake any form of democratic steps within their jurisdiction to get justice delivered, it cautioned.
The union also directed the teachers to be regular and abstain from keeping proxy teachers.
