Imphal, April 22 2009: Six years have lapsed since the Tharon Government Junior High School in Tamenglong district has been run without teachers appointed by the government.

For that period of the absence of government teachers, eight local teachers have been appointed by the villagers to run the school.

Around 180 students have been admitted in the shapeless school which has been looked after by the locals.

The agrarian villagers, who have no other alternatives for the schooling of their wards, have to contend with the school though infrastructures of the school need update.

Candidly disclosing their plights, the villagers have also lamented that no help from the government is coming either to improve the school or the living condition of the villagers.

According to the Taluipui Newmai, an octogenarian whom Hueiyen Lanpao engaged in a juicy conversation, a team of government officials have come to their village some years back and encouraged the villagers to cultivate tea for their economic sustenance as their land suits tea cultivation.

He said that no assistance from the government in cash and kind (tea saplings) has been received so far.

Other than cultivating local tea variety on their own, the villagers are eagerly waiting the tea saplings from the government's end.

The villagers miseries don't end here as the nearest primary health centre to this village locates at Somphram village which is a good eight kilometers from the village.

They said that in case of emergency they have to go to Tamenglong district headquarters in the absence needed infrastructure in the nearest health centre.

They also narrated various incidents when serious patients needing emergency cares succumbed on the way to the hospital at Tamenglong.

Taluipui Newmai wants the government to address the predicaments of the villagers.

Being blind whether the school is still under the tutelage of the government or not, he wants quick response from the authority that-be.

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