Kohima: Nagaland Governor P B Acharya on Saturday appealed to the management of Dimapur Private Schools not to commercialise education, but to make it as centers for development.
Addressing a meeting with the Chairman, Principals and Administrators of Private Schools, Mr Acharya appealed to the heads of the educational institutions to review the fee structure and also advised them to help the poor students in the form of giving them concessions through their Corporate Social Responsibility sector.
“Centre of education should not only be centers for knowledge but centers for development,” Mr Acharya said.
Expressing gratitude over the fact that Dimapur is becoming a strong educational centre for Nagaland, he felt the need for imparting value based education system, so that productive children are produced, thereby making the state and nation rich.
“Empowering with education is not the goal for empowering with education itself, it is just the beginning of a career to be a soldier of prosperity,” Acharya maintained.
He was of the view that any education centre is a centre of knowledge from knowledge aspect, yet felt that this was not the end and re-iterated that knowledgeable individuals have to be produced who are purposefully useful to the society and family.
Pointing out that not even a single proper public toilet exists between the stretch of the road from Kohima to Dimapur, the Governor emphasised on the need for change of mindset and remarked, “You are the people who can change the atmosphere”.
Acknowledging the private schools for their immense contribution in the education sector he described them as pillars of prosperity and further called upon the educationalist fraternity to address the education system as per requirement which would be socially applicable.
In the meeting, Dr Aotoshi, Administrative Head of Delhi Public School highlighted on the present activities and also the programmes in the pipeline that have to be taken up by the school.
Emphasising on the importance of vocational training Dr Aotoshi also appraised the Governor for suggesting inclusion of vocational training to CBSE.
Altogether 37 educationist representing 28 schools from Dimapur district attended the meeting.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur Elizabeth Ngully and Commissioner of Police Liremo Lotha were also present in the meeting. (UNI)
