Naga Students Federation (NSF) on Tuesday served a 15-day ultimatum on the department of school education (DoSE) over the delay in distributing textbooks to some of the schools and further demanded fulfilment of its three-point demand within stipulated period.
In an ultimatum addressed to director DoSE, NSF president Subenthung Kithan and secretary education Imtiyapang pointed out that despite repeated representation and appeal and assurances from education the department, some of the schools were yet to receive the textbooks.
While stating that academic session was in its mid-session, the federation said that the students have been compelled to appear their first quarterly examination without textbooks.
The federation said “The loss the student community faced during this 4 month can never be compensated.” It also stated that the department talks of quality education in the state but failed to provide even the basic and most important thing textbook.
The three demands of NSF include: To distribute all the textbooks to the students by May 16, 2016; government must give assurance that textbooks will be distributed to the students at the start of the academic session from the next academic session and state vigilance commission be invited and action be taken against the erring person involved.
Failure to comply with the demands within 15 days, the NSF cautioned that it would take own course of action.
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