SHILLONG: The Achik Youth Council, Tikrikilla has suggested the Task Force Drafting committee of State Education Policy to create a Special Board only for Elementary Schools of Education with supervision officers to be located in district, sub divisional and block level.
The NGO said that despite the enormous efforts and policy of Central and state Government, free and compulsory education among the rural tribal students has not been materialised.
The council also suggested that setting up of same board or bringing up the policy under education will be successful and resourceful in bringing change in the elementary education under the fields such as placing of special officers in district and sub divisional level, monitoring officer /panel to be set up in each blocks covering cluster resource centres under its armbit to ensure strict monitoring and enforcement of teachers and school management on regular basis at the grass root level.
The convenor of the council, Walseng N Sangma, said that there should be regulations restricting positions by political leaders, sitting legislators and MDCs, politically affiliated members, ex members of GHADC and Assembly in the School Management Committee (SMC) or any governing body in educational institutions.
He said on many occasions, SMC had moved to elect those political leaders, politically affiliated members and sitting as well as former legislators for the post of president, secretary and its executive members of SMC.
This, he said, is turning educational institutions into a political fight club due to direct involvement of political parties.
“ Senior citizens, retired teachers, teachers’ representatives, intellectual and neutral persons should be allowed to occupy any post of SMC or Governing Body of any educational institutions, who have enough knowledge and reliable information about the problems and grievances of same institutions,’ the NGO added.
