While the centre has spent huge amount of money to run and revive Tuli Paper Mill, it has been “sitting like a dead body”, said Nagaland governor, P.B. Acharya Thursday. He said the money for the project has been siphoned off by the “educated people”. For which, he said Nagas should be ashamed of. To revive the Tuli Paper Mill, the governor called for accountability and honesty.
The governor said this while inaugurating the Rajeshwari Kurna School (RKS), a project of Community Educational Centre Society (CECS) supported by The Hans foundation at Wati Yongpang area Tuli. The governor, who was on his maiden visit to Tuli, said that India is a very pluralistic country with different languages, interests, culture, people etc.
To prosper and march forward, the governor suggested important mantras- education, electricity and empowerment. He said that education was one of the important tools to forge ahead in every sphere of life.
The governor said education empowered the person and took them to the highest level, however, he asserted that if ultimate goal of the education was not clear through the school authority, education would make the individual a self centred man.
To this, he called upon the Aos to be strong with their identity, language, history as part of culture. “In the civilization or progress/development one should teach the youngsters English to be successful in the present age, it doesn’t mean one has to forget mother tongue,” he said. Calling upon the school authority not to go with multi storied building or residential school, the governor, however, stressed on the need to produce quality education.
Community educational centre society director Subonenba Longkumer, while speaking about the school, said that the purpose of the project funded by “The Hans foundation” was to impart education with urban amenities in rural areas.
The project was intended to bring children in rural areas at par with the urban children by providing infrastructural, educational support, nutrients food, psycho social care and health hygiene.
The project seeks to change the mindset of the rural students to have broader view in life.
The programme highlights included short speech by Lt. Gen. (retd) M.S. Metha CEO Hans foundation New Delhi, Editor Tir Yimyim K. Temjen Jamir, VCC Wamaken I. Wati Jamir and DEO Mokokchung, Alemla with a mesmerizing Hindi song was presented by Sunep Lemtur.
The programme was chaired by assistant labour commissioner, Avile Vitso, welcome address by board member, CECS Yanger Aier and vote of thanks was proposed by headmaster RK School, Mhondamo Lotha. Followed by cultural dance by Dongshing mongnyei from Anaki Phom village while National Anthem was sung by Rajeshgwari Karuna School.
It may be noted that the School would follow the CBSE course with X-SEED curriculum from class 1-4 with up-gradation of classes every year. The first batch of RKS include 69 students out of which 24 are residential students.