Rising People’s Party (RPP) on Saturday released an 11-point “education manifesto”, to undertake a complete overhaul/reform of what it termed as the state’s dirtiest department (Education department), once the party comes to power in the State.
Emphasizing the need for reforms in the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC), RPP assured to minimize manipulations in the interview stage, adding that the current interview marks in NCS exam would be slashed from 55 to 25, similarly with other exams.
It also assured to enact a law where all vacant posts in the departments would be compulsorily requisitioned to NPSC/NSSB, which was not being done in the present system. RPP said all MCQ answer keys (prelims and mains) for both civil and technical exams would will be declared within 15 days after the exams. To induct domain experts as board members of the NPSC, where there will be no room for failed politicians or party workers in the board.
To compulsorily ensure that NPSC maintains a fixed annual calendar for conduct of exams. In order to reform the NSSB, RPP assured to do away with the interview system in NSSB.
The party has also promised to set up Teachers’ Selection Board (TSB), since the present selection of teachers up to Higher Secondary level fall neither under NPSC nor NSSB.
After the written stage, RPP said there would be an arduous interview stage where the interviewers will be a set of empanelled university professors, whose position would be on rotation basis and for a fixed period. RPP said assured to identify all ghost and proxy teachers and initiate action.
The party also said that communitization of teaching/SMCs will be discontinued, adding that the SMCs have become dens of corruption.
Further, RPP said teachers’ service rules would be suitably amended and litigations would be a thing of the past.
It also assured fix a ceiling on admission/monthly fees for all private schools and colleges in the state.
Besides doing away with the post of principal director of DoSE and making the director as the HoD, RPP said post of yoga teacher in all government schools introduced by NDPP-BJP coalition would be abolished. “Factors responsible for alien cultural imprints will be stamped out,” it added.
While assuring to highlight Naga history/NE personalities in the NBSE curriculum, RPP said, based on Mudaliar Commission, it would initiate diversification of curriculum– skill based – as per the aptitude of the student from class 8 onwards.
