Imphal, May 03: Even as the teachers recruitment under Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) has raked up some contentious issues from AMSU, DESAM and Komrem Students' Union, the All Colleges Tribal Students Organisation Manipur (ACTSOM), Zeliangrong Youth Front (Assam, Manipur, Nagaland), Movement for Tribals People Rights Manipur (MTPRM) and Sadar Hills Youth Union (SHYU) in a jointly signed statement said that the memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Government of Manipur and MTPRM in the year 2003, and accordingly local qualified candidates were appointed/recruited on adhoc basis to meet the immediate needs of teachers under Autonomous Distric Councils.

The organisations said "the statement of AMSU, DESAM and Komrem Students Union published in the local newspapers on May 3 is nothing but to create disturbances and derail the teachers recruitment process for the schools in hill districts".

It said that the time frame of advertisement for enrolling local candidates was published in their respective employment exchange offices and also in the newspapers and added "AMSU, DESAM, and Komrem Students Union have limited knowledge regarding Autonomous District Councils administration since there are no junior high schools under ADCs as mentioned in their statement.

Meanwhile, the four hill based organisations appealed to DESAM, AMSU and Komrem Students Union to stop disturbing the recruitment process and warned that the hills based organisations will not remain silent spectators.

At the same time, ACTSOM, ZYF (AMN), MTPRM and Sadar Hills Youth Union also appealed the Government of Manipur to recruit only local qualified candidates as per the MoU and with the recruitment rules of primary teachers.

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