Advisor for School Education & SCERT, Dr Kekhrielhoulie Yhome, commenting on the Tuensang admission crisis, said the education department is also to be blamed and informed that the department has already started the process to address the issue.

The department will be issuing order to deploy two teachers today in Tuensang, and the teacher who was relieved will be retained, said Yhome.

The Advisor said this while speaking on the sideline of a programme on Thursday here at ATI, Kohima.

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With regard to upgradation of the schools, Yhome said it cannot immediately be done as there is a process involved and that the matter has to be taken up at the State Level Education Committee meeting. He said the district will have to forward the proposal to the department and it will be considered on the process of “need and necessity”.

Commenting on the deplorable infrastructures of government run schools across the state, Yhome mentioned that many school infrastructures were built in the 1960s and 70s but regretted that the State did not have resources. He said the department is aware that it needs to improve in many of the schools however, it has limited resources.

“Last week I was in Pungro (Kiphire), and I have seen the state of affairs myself. It is very sad. Many of our students are sitting in classrooms which were built in the 70s and it is pathetic. So, I can understand very much,” the Advisor said.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Commissioner of Tuensang, Lithrongla Tongpi Rutsa, along with SDO Civil Sentilong Ozukum had visited both the schools on 7 July and met the concern institutional heads and deliberated on how to go about with this issue and measures that should be taken.

Mention maybe made that with the increase in the number of students passing the examination, a bottleneck situation has developed in Tuensang Town as the higher secondary schools cannot accommodate all the qualified students in Class 11.

The Chang Wedoshi Setshang (Chang Students’ Conference) had served a memorandum to the Principal Director, Directorate of School Education, Nagaland stating that the existing two government higher secondary schools cannot accommodate the qualified students due to lack of classrooms as well as shortage of teachers. It also stated that 780 students have filled in the admission forms this year meanwhile the intake of the school is only 370 for both the schools.

In light of the discrepancies, the conference halted the admissions process for Class 11 in those two schools from 6 June 2023 until the department provides alternative arrangement to accommodate those students who filled up the admission form.

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