Imphal, November 15 2008: FOLLOWING THE incident of shutting down the offices of the State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) on November 13, the SCERT has agreed with the terms of the Meetei Erol Eyek Loinashillon Apunba Lup (MEELAL).

Leaders of MEELAL today told reporters at MEELAL's head office that even the government of Maharastra was doing all it could to develope the Marathi language and script.

Education Secretary of MEELAL, RK Jiten said that having the conviction that a state or society can not get developement without developing its script and languages first, the government of Maharastra had made Marathi language compulsory.

Marathi language with script is taught compulsorily in all classes in Maharastra.

But to the contrary of this, in Manipur the state government is trying to suppress the language and its script, RK Jiten lamented.

While MEELAL and other Meetei script lovers were spending sleepless nights to spread use of the script all over the state, the SCERT had failed to transcribe the question design, blueprint and sample questions in printed books and teachers' guide books for primary and elementary classes printed in Bengali script to Meetei script.

Because of that the MEELAL locked up the doors of the offices of the SCERT on November 13, RK Jiten said.

Officer in charge of the DIET, W Ratan Kumar who was present at the press meet, told reporters that he, on behalf of the DIET, respects the role taken by the MEELAL for a better future of the younger generations.

The SCERT would start working to transcribe the necessary guide books and questions from Bengali script to Meetei script very soon.

In this regard the SCERT would go hand in hand with MEELAL, he said.

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