IMPHAL: A teachers association in Manipur on Saturday objected to state government’s decision bringing elementary schools in hill districts under autonomous district councils and threatened to call a strike if it was not withdrawn.
“The government decision was to degrade the status of education in the state and the hill teachers would not accept the government’s policy,” the All Manipur Hill Teachers’ Association said in a statement on Saturday.
It said strikes would be launched soon if the decision was not withdrawn.
At present all elementary schools in hill districts are under the Directorate (Schools) Education. According to the recent government decision, elementary schools would be under the chairman who would be an elected ADC member, official sources said.
The bank accounts of schools would also be operated by the chairman and headmaster or headmistress jointly, the sources said.
There are at present six ADCs in hill districts.
The elections to autonomous district councils were held late last year after gap of about 20 years.
Some hill-based organisations had earlier opposed the elections to the ADCs and demanded the hill districts be kept under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. (PTI)