TG students seek Gov’s appointment on demands; GP students join exam boycott

IMPHAL, May 14: Even as students of the all-girls’ Tamphasana Girls’ Higher Secondary School are said to be seeking an appointment with the state Governor to press for their demands, students of the all girl’s college, Ghanapriya Women’s College have decided to join in to boycott the bachelor’s examinations conducted by the Manipur University on Monday.

Following the failure of the state government and the state Education Minister to act on their demands, students of Tamphasana Girls’ Higher Secondary School have decided to personally meet with the state Governoe Gurbachan Jagat and pressed for their demands.

According to sources, the student leaders of the school today submitted a written appeal to the Governor’s Secretariat, Raj Bhavan requesting for an appointment.

The demands of the students include appointment of a regular Principal and replace the present principal on contract basis and to fill the post of Vice Principal.

The students are also demanding proper laboratory infrastructures and toilets, increase in the number of hostel rooms, completion of the under construction School Hall and provision of a students’ Common Room and Students’ Union’s room.

The demands were submitted to the state education Minister Moirangthem Okendro on April 18 and the students had also personally met with the Minister on April 29, however the government has failed to act on the demands of the students.

Meanwhile, the Ghanapriya Women’s College Students’ Union has said in a press release that the students’ union will fully support the decision of the Co-ordination Committee of College Students’ Union, Manipur to boycott the Manipur University conducted BA, B.Sc, B.Com exams as the government has failed to act on the students demands.

A press release of the union demanded that the act of usurping all the funds allocated for the improvement of the higher education in the state should be stopped at once.

In the present state it is hard to belief that the students of the state will be able to enter today’s competition, the statement declared before adding that the condition of the GP Women’s College is in such a pitiful and pathetic state.

It continued the students have already submitted several memorandums and launched several democratic forms of agitations, however the government is yet to look into the demands of the students.