Indignantly, the Suisa Memorial Award was in the news recently but for the wrong reason. The award was instituted in the name of Suisa, a prominent Naga movement ideologue and former Lok Sabha MP.

Wrong reason was no way to honour a person of the stature of Suisa but for the immature and incompetent persons who manage the award. Proper planning with application of scientific mind is apparently not seen with the persons who runs the shows. TKs/TEDCOM who manage the Suisa Memorial Award need to redefine its role and objectives in a more transparent manner and re-establish its credibility as the frontal body of the Tangkhul educational movement.

Running an organisation without proper management system is a risky venture, particularly when it involves such high profile role of managing an award. This is so because every organisation requires the making of decision, the co-ordinating of activities, the handling of people and evaluating the performance directed toward its objectives.

Because in the context of TKS/TEDCOM its missio-nary objective is to encou-rage and to produce quality students to build up quality human resources and ethically do it so as to serve the general welfare. But sometimes mistakes are committed but to err is human. The real danger lies in not recognising tho-se mistakes.

Pertinently, it is worth pointing out that scientific management is the art of knowing exactly what is to be done and the best way of doing it, showing justice a fair play all the way.

Significantly, what really went wrong with TKS/TEDCOM to be mired in controversy?

Simple investigation shows that TKS/TEDCOM failed to have fixed criteria for selecting schools and students for the award. This is the crux of the controversy and naturally, this is the self-invited damage that could have been avoided. The risk of making decision based upon the whim of the TKS/TEDCOM managers is therefore tasted in a very bitter manner.

Unfortunately, the victim of this improper planning was infant Jesus English School, Ukhrul, who in the past two years was given the award for achieving cent per cent result in the HSLC exam. And repeating the same success story this year the school were deservingly awaiting for the cent per pass award.

But the decision taken by TKS/TED-COM at the wrong time denied the reputed Infant Jesus English School the honour of receiving the coveted award for the third consecutive year. Unprofessional was the manner of TKS/TEDOM in doing away with the award without going through the normal practice of serving advance notification to all the schools.

Consequently, the Private School Association hit back against the TKS/TEDOM for its unjustified decision which is not going to boost the morale of the schools and its students in any sense of the term.

The TKS/TEDOM management have failed to take into consideration the necessity of keeping the private schools in good humour for the simple reason that realistic education begins with the private schools and continues with the private schools.

A wiser application of non-rigid methods could have made a big difference in upholding the values attached with Suisa Memorial Award. After all, productivity and satisfaction go together in a really scientifically managed programme.

May be something could going wrong with the leadership within TKS/TEDCOM. In today's words a leader must be capable of envisioning the future reality of his or her society and be able to effectively and convincingly communicate it to the people.

The fact that Infant Jesus English School returned the award given to it for the last two years is nothing but communication mismanagement on the part of TKS/TEDOM requiring serious thought and communicate the corrective measures taken to the people in the manner befitting the issue.

From the journalistic and ethical point of view the role of press in Ukhrul affairs is non-existent. Had there been a responsible press many controversial issues could have been avoided or solved with a new direction and guidance.

'The Aja' is the only paper in Ukhrul. But the irony is that this paper managed and edited by husband and wife duo is surviving just for name sake, and the paper is being churned out without any journalistic content worth the name.

From being run as the guardian of the society, this paper has been scorned for the increasing evident of being managed with business and profits as the primary aims. This is the tragedy of press in Ukhrul being run by persons who have sca-nt respect for press ethics.

In the business term monopoly and exploitation often go together.

Ridiculously, 'The Aja' paper enjoying the monopolistic status as the sole running paper among the Tangkhuls is exploiting the Tangkhul people rather than guiding them as demanded by journalistic ethics.

The Tangkhuls will be immensely blessed if Ngathingkhui and Valley Rose redefine their role and use the power of press in the guidance of the society by maintaining certain standard of dignity and integrity.