IMPHAL, Jan 10 NNN: The All Manipur Students’ Union (AMSU) has on Thursday demanded Manipur Government to formulate a clear policy on the alleged turning of private schools into profit-making centres accusing the latter of being quiet on the matter.
Th Suresh, president, AMSU made the demand while addressing a press conference at the union’s Head Office, DM College campus here.
He said the AMSU has been working hard under the ‘Transformation of Education System,’ a drive initiated by the union since 2011 against the higher school fee charges by private schools in the state. The union has demanded 200 private educational institutions in the state to submit their respective” fee structure reports” to the union for the year 2013-14, but till today, only 13 schools including one CBSE school has submitted the same to the union, he informed.
In this regard, the AMSU has convened a meeting of intellectuals at the union’s Head Office on January 13, he further informed and said the resolutions taken at the meeting will be duly submitted to the state Government for implementation.
He also sought the cooperation of the students and guardians in such step of AMSU and appealed to all the remaining schools to submit their fee structure reports before the above meeting.
AMSU had earlier announced that the said schools should submit their reports by January 10.
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