The Phom Students’ Conference (PSC), while expressing “utmost sadness” over the “step-motherly treatment” by the Department of School Education (DoSE) towards the improvement of Govt. High School Tamlu, has questioned the state government as well as the DoSE as to why its plea and representation in this regard were ignored.
In a press note, president PSC Hongkam D. Ngonyen, stated that “the very school which has served as the centre that sparked off lots of pioneers in the past had been left abandoned and unattended till date. Since its establishment in the year 1973, the state government has left the infrastructural development at pitiable condition.”
The Union lamented that despite wide publicity of the deplorable state of the High School in the local media during the “Wheel Tour” campaign of Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) on March 7,2014, no action was taken by the concerned authority. Despite repeated pleas to the concerned authority in the form of representations and other measures, PSC rued the state of the Govt High School Tamlu was still in a deplorable condition.
The union also stated it was “deeply shocked and disheartened” as to why the Govt High School Tamlu was not included in the priority list for re-strengthening in the recent tender call.
Keeping into consideration” the plight and suffering of the poor school children”, PSC stated it has no alternative but to demand for immediate and full-fledged construction of the school.
In this regard, the union has appealed to the state government and DoSE to immediately attend to its plea failing which PSC warned it “might be left with no option but to fight for justice for the cause of education and students’ future.”