By Tejang Chakma
ABOUT a month after their names were deleted from the school admission register, smiles of 22 Chakma students of Government Secondary School Diyun under Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh are back after they were called back to school.
ABOUT a month after their names were deleted from the school admission register, smiles of 22 Chakma students of Government Secondary School Diyun under Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh are back after they were called back to school.
In September 2011, the Extra-Assistant Commissioner (EAC), Diyun circle issued an order allowing the 22 Chakma students to attend their classes forthwith. The order came forth after a two-member team of Arunachal Pradesh Chakma Students’ Union (APCSU) headed by its President called on the EAC. The students’ body took up the issue since it came to light to save the future of these students.
The EAC revoked its earlier order No.DYN/DEV/-3/2009-10/505-09 dated 24 August 2011 asking the school authority to terminate the admission of the Chakma students studying in IXth standard in the school. The Headmaster In-Charge in his letter dated 27 August 2011 informed the EAC of deletion of the names of the students from the school admission register. This harsh step was taken after the EAC found that all the 22 students were students of a private school in Bijoypur village which falls under another circle namely Bordumsa. This private school has been using Government Middle School, Dumpani village under Diyun circle as a feeder school for its Class VIII students. These 22 students had appeared in the final examination in this school during academic session 2010-11 and successfully passed out. Subsequently, these students were admitted in Class IX at Diyun secondary school in this academic session on production of Class VIII pass certificates from Middle School, Dumpani village.
However, the EAC stated that no prior approval was obtained from the local authority to get the feeder status and declared the admission of these students as illegal. Since then the fate of these students’ was hanging in balance. Five of the 22 students were girls.
The issue was sorted out following talks held with the EAC and Students’ Union members. However, the order was accompanied with a rider that these 22 students will have to shift to other schools in the next academic session.
Yet, these students are happy to be back to school.
Names of the 22 students are given in the table below.
Sl No | Students’ Name | Father’s Name |
1 | Miss S Chakma | Shri K. D. Chakma |
2 | Master D. D. Chakma | Shri Lokhindar Chakma |
3 | Master S. L.Chakma | Shri J. M. Chakma |
4 | Miss N. Chakma | Shri S. K. Chakma |
5 | Master S. K. Chakma | Shri B. M. Chakma |
6 | Master C. Chakma | Shri S. K. Chakma |
7 | Master A. Chakma | Shri A. K. Chakma |
8 | Master L. J. Chakma | Shri S. L. Chakma |
9 | Master A. M. Chakma | Shri A. S. Chakma |
10 | Miss G. Chakma | Shri D. D. Chakma |
11 | Master A. Chakma | Shri D. C. Chakma |
12 | Master R. Chakma | Shri K. D. Chakma |
13 | Master J. K. Chakma | Shri N. K. Chakma |
14 | Master S. B. Chakma | Shri B. G. Chakma |
15 | Master S. C. Chakma | Shri K. Chakma |
16 | Master K. Chakma | Shri J. K. Chakma |
17 | Miss B. Chakma | Shri B. S. Chakma |
18 | Master B. K. Chakma | Shri M. D. Chakma |
19 | Master R. J. Chakma | Shri R. C. Chakma |
20 | Master M. R. Chakma | Shri S. Chakma |
21 | Master S. M. Chakma | Shri S. R. Chakma |
22 | Miss C. S. Chakma | Shri J. R. Chakma |
where will these students go the next year? They may face the same problem next year as well....
ReplyDeletegood post...thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteWow. An appreciable act of bravery exhibited by such student organisation - "for bringing an endless smile to the students' hope back there, and of course for reinstating the students!"
ReplyDeleteMust say a rather foolish and miscalculation of that local authority's and the school's -the actual culprits who were the sole responsible for molesting the very fundamental rights of those poor students without actually realising the consequences of its poor move.
I presume the State out there still does apartheid like method to the minority community especially, towards the Chakmas.
Unbelievable, all the nations far East and West, had outgrown with the time and have gave up all sorts of discrimination towards the minorities, but this small State only on the Earth is yet to fix its anomalies?!
I often wonder if this small State somehow did manage to have earned an independent sovereign Statehood, then surely would have trampled all the minorities at will.
But I must aware to it, that big Guys UN and other concerned organisations plus other nations wouldn't obviously sit quietly if ever such ill-fated event takes place.
Time to extend an amicable gesture towards all irrespective of communities, creed and blah, blah, blah... We're all good
at heart, and no one wants to get hurt.