Students taking out a rally to protest monetary demand.
IMPHAL, June 1 NNN : Teachers and students of Little Master English Higher Secondary School of Shamurou under Wangoi constituency in Imphal West district took out to the street in protest against reported huge monetary demand of Rs 50 lakh served to the school by the proscribed Kangleipak Communist Party (MC) group of Lamyanba Khuman.
Today, all the teachers and students numbering about 500 of the school gathered in the campus and later massed through the Shamurou under the banner “Stop Harassing the Educational Institutions” urging the militant outfit to withdraw the huge money demand.
Reports said the demand note was given to the Principal of the school, Haobam Premkumar yesterday the shortly before the students were to disperse.
The demand note had informed the Principal that the school authority must contact to the outfit within five days for a talk regarding the demand warning that the school authority should be responsible for any untoward incident if failed to response, the reports said.
Sources said the outfit had earlier threatened M Thoiba, secretary, Governing Body of the school through mobile phone pertaining to monetary demand.
Thoiba, who was also participating in the rally, told reporters that the school was not meant for commercial purposes only but it was set up with an aim to uplift the poor students and that it takes less tuition fees while comparing to other private schools in the state.
The protesters also held placards reading “Stop Monetary Demand,” “Make Education Free Zone” and “Save Student’s Life.”
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