India (Manipur): Need to set up department for tribal languages

[Harold Schiffman]

  Central reservation policy not suited to MU, says DESAM

 Source : The Imphal Free Press

IMPHAL, Mar 2: The Democratic Students` Alliance of Manipur, DESAM has
appealed to the state government and Manipur University authorities to
try its best to the settle the matter of reservation for the tribals
and urge a special programme for them to the Centre.
The organisation urged the authorities to insist upon the Centre to
amend the act of the Parliament which bound the Manipur University
after its conversion to Centre University. Agreeing that the Central
reservation policy for the non-teaching and teaching staff in the
University is not suited with the state, the statement said that the
current reserved seats of 38 out of 322 posts of non-teaching staff in
the University and three out of 143 posts for the teaching staffs is
not agreeable.

The Desam said that even though the MU was under an act of the state
policy before, it has come under the Central University Act 1995 since
it was taken over by the Centre after a decision passed by the
Parliament and under the act only 7.5 percent are reserved for the ST
while that of SC is 15 percent. The same is enforced in all the
Central universities throughout the country. But in the matter of
demanding 34 percent reservation for ST in accordance with the
population, it can be said that state has been reserving 31 percent
for the STs. Despite all this, the University cannot do whatever it
wanted according to the local situation. So there is the need of
amending the Parliament Act which binds the reservation policy to make
it suitable with the local situation, DESAM observed.

The matter needs to be focused to the Centre with a firm stand of the
MPs and chief minister and political parties. Any campaign in this
regard will be supported by DESAM including any steps taken by MUTSU
and other tribal students bodies, the statement added.
The DESAM also further extended its full support to the move of MUTSU
and other bodies of the MU to expand some study centre of the
University to other parts of the hill districts of the state. It will
help in improving higher study facilities in the hill students to a
great extent and bring balanced development between hills and valley,
the DESAM said. The DESAM also drew the attention of the authorities
for the setting up of a department for the tribal languages in the
state, like the separate Manipuri language department.
It would also help in preserving and developing cultures of the tribal
people, the statement went on to say.


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