A consultative meeting including various towns and villages level stakeholders from the education department, GBs of the area and town, Student bodies and teachers was held at Satakha town on February 9 under the initiative of Minister for Roads & Bridges, G. Kaito Aye.
According to DIPR, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the minister, Hukato Murru representing the minister stressed upon the minister’s serious concerns over the deteriorating enrollment of students in most of the GPSs, GMSs and High schools in the area. He further appealed the GBs to focus on aspects in their villages and areas to enhance enrollments of students in their respective schools for progressive development and future of schools in the Sub-division. The OSD concluded by saying that the Minister conveyed his regret for not being able to be present at the meeting personally due to some unavoidable government assignment.
David Zhimo, SDEO Satakha said that, the consultative meeting’s main agenda was to retrospect on declining enrollment of students and to churn out ways to raise enrollment of students in government schools of the area. He further appealed to the teachers to always stay toe to toe to the latest teaching system by being sincere to online teaching trainings policies.
Download Nagaland Tribune app on Google Play
The meeting further adopted three resolutions for implementation:
- All teachers shall refrain from engaging in external services unless they are able to fully dedicate their time to their primary duty, which was teaching responsibilities.
- The village and its council shall provide accommodation required by teachers to stay in their assigned posting village.
- A comprehensive enrollment drives to be initiated to encourage parents and students to enroll in their respective village government schools. And collaborative efforts of local leaders, community organisations to support the enrollment drive and to report to SDEO office with progress reports.
Earlier, the programme was chaired by Co-ordinator EBRC, Atoli Zhimo .The meeting culminated with a thorough deliberation in an interaction session.
