Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday said there is impasse as far as implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) is concerned.
Speaking to media persons, Sangma said, “NEP implementation is a transition into a new system and transition into a new system is something that obviously is not so simple and hence, we need to give a time to transit into the new system and hence that process is on. Is it easy? It is not because we need more rooms, we need more disciplines, we need more teachers, and all of these require more money.”
He informed that the delegation of the MCTA, which has been protesting against implementation of NEP within this academic year, had also met him recently.
“They met me. They said let us do it next year. They are not against it. They are all saying is if you want us to implement well where is the money? Where is the classroom?…they have genuine concerns and issues which need to be resolved. It is not that they are against it, their concern is how to do it , who will do it, how much support will get from where and those are the areas which will work out as we move along,” he said.
He said that “the deficit colleges are manned by the managing committees. To what extent can we come in and play the role, these are all matters which cannot be decided in one go and it has got a huge impact. Therefore, there is nothing wrong. Let us understand that it is a process, it does take time as there’s a lot of funds involved. The question is how do we organize it and how do we move forward with it but the bottom line is there is no choice, we have to move forward.”