With no affirmative response from the government of Nagaland,
members of the Sakshi Students’ Union (SSU), based in Longleng district, have made
good on their assurance to shut the village’s high school and agitate.
The community’s continuing demand to the authorities of the state for mathematics and science teachers has yet to be met.
Small in number and based in a remote corner of the state but demanding attention to their plight, the members of the union and the school’s students marched it out on Tuesday.
As declared through the local media, the members of the small village’s school and union undertook their second phase of agitations by shutting down the government high school of Sakshi, since Tuesday, August 16.
“The school has been locked for the past five days and the innocent students are losing their academic career due to the callous attitude of the school education department and the department shall be fully responsible for killing the future of government high school of Sakshi,” remarked former council chairman of Sakshi village Nyamnyei Phom.
The school was upgraded from a middle school in 1991. However, no teacher was deployed for the high school according to student leaders of Sakshi village.
It may be noted that the school at Sakshi, said to be 25 years old, is the third-oldest school of Longleng district have been running without mathematics and science subject teachers till date.
Further, the school’s board and the village’s students’ union have been requesting the School Education department for said subject teachers. Even after numerous submissions of memorandum and ultimatums to the department requesting for two ‘demanding subject teachers’, there has yet to be any no response from the government to the urgent requirement.
The students’ union is determined to go to any length to achieve its goal and will not call off their agitation unless their demand is met.
(Al Ngullie, August 20, 2016; Eastern Mirror)
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