Private schools accused of commercializing education
SHILLONG: An organisation calling itself the Dalit Sena has sent a memorandum to Director, School Education and Literacy, Ambrose Marak, alleging that unaided schools have been resorting to commercialization of education and promoting corruption.
The Dalit Sena alleged that such schools increase the tuition fees arbitrarily and force students to purchase books, non standard notebooks, uniforms and bags from the school itself at much higher prices.
They also pointed out that some schools have the habit of changing school uniforms on a regular basis.
MBOSE conducts workshops at Tura and Shillong
TURA: Two workshops were conducted by the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE) in collaboration with the national Institute of Securities and Markets (NISM) and Reserve bank of India (RBI) at both Shillong and Tura.
The workshops were conducted with a view to sensitize all stakeholders of the value of providing financial literacy, an important life skill to inculcate the habit of saving at an early age, acquire knowledge of investment and protect themselves from being victims of financial frauds.
In Shillong, the workshop was conducted on May 26 and 27 at its Regional Office while in Tura the same was conducted on May 30 and 31 at the MBOSE Headquarters. The workshop at Tura was graced by Parliamentary Secretary Winnerson D. Sangma where altogether 44 teachers of selected schools from all the districts of Garo Hills attended.
Earlier, MBOSE Executive Chairman and Commissioner and Secretary, State Education Department, E.P. Kharbhih, threw open the workshop.
FIR against fraudster
SHILLONG: Two separate FIRs have been filed against a woman for allegedly cheating two women on the pretext of providing jobs in different departments of the North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU).
Iadarisha Kharkongor lodged a complaint that one Larisa Pale of Mawlai Phudmuri, Shillong, cheated her of Rs.1,35,000 with a promise to provide her a job of a cleaner at NEHU, Shillong in 2014.
Another woman Josephine Shangpliang also lodged a complaint that Larisa Pale had cheated her of Rs.2,24,000 with a promise to provide jobs in the Bio Medical Informatics Centre at NEHU, Shillong in 2013.
