Union Home Minister Amit Shah. File
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Ten tribal MLAs in Manipur have written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, requesting him to problem instructions to the State authorities to reinstate three officers in companies, who’ve been suspended for allegedly serving to 26 schools in Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts get CBSE affiliation.
In a memorandum to the Home Minister, the MLAs, together with seven belonging to the ruling BJP, claimed that it has been learnt that the Kuki-Zomi officers serving in the Manipur Education Department have been suspended by the State authorities for issuing no objection certificates to the 26 schools for acquiring CBSE affiliation, following the ethnic violence in the north-eastern State.
The legislators additionally sought “to initiate necessary steps to restore the CBSE affiliation” granted in favour of these schools at the earliest. State Education Minister Th Basanta Kumar Singh could not be reached for comment.
The Manipur government had, earlier, instituted a three-member inquiry committee to probe “into the issuance of no objection certificates for CBSE affiliation by unauthorised individuals/ officers”.
The committee was requested to “find out officials responsible for issuing the NOCs without following due process… and recommend appropriate actions against responsible officers”.
CBSE later withdrew the affiliation with speedy impact “on the bottom that the NOCs submitted by these schools haven’t been issued by the competent authorised functionaries of the State authorities and for cancellation of affiliation as requested by the State authorities”.