Imphal, June 20: Reacting to the announcement that MU will offer a Dance course in MA, the Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur today said that the authority concerned should spell out in clear cut terms the eligibility criteria for pursuing the course.

In a statement, the student body also suggested that MU authority and the Art and Culture Department should take up the necessary action to implement the agreed proposals to develop the Dance College and get it affiliated to MU.

Students who have passed their BA and did their post graduate course earlier at this institute should also be given recognised certificates after letting them take an examination conducted by MU.

At the moment there are still many confusions over the eligibility criteria for pursuing the MA course in Dance from MU, said DESAM.

Before, there was not a single recognised institute offering dance course up to the degree level.

This in effect means tat the Dance College was not recognised by any university and had no clearly laid down syllabus either.

The same case also applies to the JN Dance Academy, which is more like an NGO functioning under the Sangeet Natak Academy.

DESAM said that the JN Dance Academy too does not have any syllabus/ordinance and added that the teachers appointed are not done under any Rules and Regulations.

As such the certificates issued by this institute too are not recognised anywhere.

Therefore the announcement that students passing out from this institute are qualified to get admission at MU for the Dance course tantamounts to saying that JN Dance Academy was recognised by MU earlier, it contended.

DESAM also questioned why MU has not explicitly stated that students from Dance College, under the State Government will be granted admission.

DESAM and the Indigenous Martial Arts and Cultural Students have been urging the authority concerned to develop Dance College and place all the needed infrastructure at the disposal of the college, said the statement.

However the Art and Culture Department has been sleeping over the matter and has instead been pursuing adhoc policies, it charged.

The Government too should work out the modalities so that the eligibility criteria of the students who can get admission to the Dance College to pursue their BA in Dance course are not clouded by doubts and confusion.

Such a step is necessary for the MA course in Dance to become meaningful.

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