Teacher woes echo as
Phek’s school add rooms
Even as students in Phek took protests to the streets
venting ire against the School Education department for alleged neglect of the
town’s main government school, the civic stakeholders, security personnel and
private citizens and well wishers have had to pool resources and free labor to
come to the aid of the school.
The ailing government higher secondary school of Phek has added an extension, a number of classrooms, but the problems of the institution is not over yet: the cause for stakeholders to bemoan the state of “educational backwardness” and functional grievances such as the shortage of teachers for the school continues.
The school’s building has been added an extension. The building was constructed through the initiative of the school’s managing board. The additional was inaugurated on July 9. Murohu Chotso, deputy commissioner of Phek district was the chief guest of the inaugural ceremony.
The school’s extension building was constructed in one month by the school managing board with financial and material contribution from 22 villages under Phek district, 13 colonies of Phek town, contribution from the District Executive Force and 5th Nagaland Armed Police and well-wishing citizens. Members of a colony volunteered with free labor to complete the building within a record time.
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CITIZENS’ PRIDE: This building, an extension for Phek town’s
government higher secondary school, was reportedly constructed using resources,
including free labor, mobilized by concerned private citizens and institutional
leaders. The building was constructed in
one month by the school managing board with financial and material contribution
from 22 villages under Phek sadar,13 colonies of Phek town, and contribution
from the District Executive Force and the 5th Nagaland Armed Police and
well-wishing citizens. Members of a colony volunteered with free labor to
complete the building within a record time.
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While lauding the community’s initiative for extending
school infrastructure, a local leader expressed concern over the acute shortage
of teachers in the secondary and higher secondary sections of the school.
Nonetheless, there was optimism that the department of School Education would
deploy teachers at the earliest.
Deputy Commissioner Murohu Chotso addressed the inauguration. Exhorting the gathering, he expressed profound appreciation to the 22 villages of Phek district, members of the colonies, and the public in general for demonstrating their concern with positive response towards the call to construct the school’s extension building.
That aside, the district
administrator expressed concern over what he said was ‘educational backwardness”
of the area. He challenged the gathering to be more proactive ‘in the pursuit
of quality education’.
The deputy commissioner also acknowledged the multiple problems faced by the school. The school is the only higher secondary institution in Phek district headquarters. Chotso expressed optimism that the department of School Education would address the issue of shortage of teachers in the school at the earliest.
He also requested the teachers to ‘bear with the inconveniences’
and give their best to provide ‘the much needed quality education to students’.
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