DESAM appeals for transfer revocation
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, October 07 2014: The Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur has made an appeal calling for the revocation of the state government's recent order replacing the present chairmen of BoSEM and CoHSEM with two IAS officers in the interest of the students and the state.

In a press statement, the students' organisation urged the authorities to take corrective steps to rectify the disruption caused to the academic atmosphere in the high and higher secondary schools in the state stemming from the issuance of the official notification of the transfers at a most inappropriate time.

The statement released by the secretary of the students' body termed the move to replace them just four months before the HSLC and HSSLC examinations as an act showing lack of judgment.

Such immature steps are unexpected from the ministers who are running the administration and will be taking a more damaging form in the field of education, it stated.

Emphasizing the obvious need for persisting with the present chairman of BoSEM, the statement stated that the controller of BoSEM had joined his post recently in June and has not yet gained experience in conducting examinations.

A new secretary of the board had not been sent after the retirement of the previous incumbent, it reminded adding that the next matriculate examination is significant as Meitei script will replace Bengali script beginning this year.

The replacement of the chairman who can be regarded as the only person left familiar with the confidential information of the examination will be hundred percent wrong and could invite disasters beyond our wildest imagination during the 2015 examination, it warned.

Any such erratic decision at the juncture whether taken up on the basis of government policy or personal differences will be detrimental to the functioning of the educational institutions, and should be deferred till the completion of the examination, it contended.

It appealed to the chief minister and his group of ministers to desist from committing any mistake which will be detrimental to the academic careers of the students in particular and the society in general.

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