9 Higher Secondary schools remain closed

Aizawl, June 27: Nine higher
 secondary schools managed
 with lumpsum grant-in-aid system in rural areas remain closed since June 18 to protest the non-upgradation to adhoc status.
All the nine schools - Phullen Higher Secondary School (HSS), Farkawn HSS, NE Khawdungsei HSS, E Lungdar HSS, Thingsulthliah HSS, Tuisualral HSS, Zobawk HSS, West Phaileng HSS and Zawlnuam HSS - were established and have been looked after by villagers and civil societies in their
respective villages since 14
years back.
A statement of the
Mizoram Govt. Lumpsum Grant-in-Aid Higher Secondary School Association (MIGLAHSSA) said that the villagers and civil
societies have donated their own resources for the sake of education.
“Even after more than ten
years, the state government has done nothing to grant adhoc status to these schools.
The villagers and civil
societies are drained and until the government grants us adhoc status we will carry on our strike,” the statement
said.
Leaders of the association recently met
education minister H
Rohluna, who told them that the government was not in a position to upgrade the
schools due to financial constraints and promised to look into the matter once the
financial position is stable.
The strike has affected atleast 850 students in the nine schools across Mizoram and is supported by villagers, all NGOs and student unions.
Student bodies of the
villages on Wednesday
issued a communiqué in support of the association. “It has been a long fourteen years for these schools, the villagers, NGOs and other societies have been
donating for the sake of
education. It is high time the government does something for these schools,” the statement read.

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