SHONAAM TABRI DADA

Shonaam Tabri DADA ITANAGAR, Jun 08: A local boy has lodged a complaint to Consumer Rights Organisation-Arunachal Pradesh (CRO-AP) against Government Middle School at Niti Vihar here for demanding money to provide transfer certificate (TC). A team from CRO-AP, which bats for the rights of consumers in the State, met headmaster in-charge Biri Tapa on Thursday to find out whether a price has been put to obtaining TC. “Tapa admitted the school was charging money for TC from the students for certain reasons. This is very disturbing for a government-run school,” CRO-AP President Achu Bagang told The Arunachal Pioneer. “It is a request to the State Education department to provide adequate fund for the educational institutions and visit the schools toward improving the quality of education,” he said. The complainant said the school was charging Rs 300 from Class I-V and Rs 800 from VI-VIII. Investigation revealed another student of Class VI did not get TC until hi...

Shonaam Tabri DADA YUPIA, Jun 08: The fight of students’ unions to have a regular director for National Institute of Technology (NIT) here appears to have been in vain with Dr Rajiv Kumar Garg quitting to join NIT Silchar in Assam on Thursday. Heeding the demand of the students, the Ministry of Human Resource Development had appointed Dr Garg as Director of NIT Yupia five months ago. His departure has raised many an eyebrow. In a statement to the Capital police, Dr Garg said he resigned for personal reasons. His colleagues and NIT staff said he quit because of family issues and poor functioning of the institution. But the minutes of the 20th meeting of NIT’s Board of Governors (BoG) held at the AICTE conference room in New Delhi on April 13 said he had received threat calls, as did the registrar in-charge and other faculty members. The minutes also said the threats made it difficult for the institute’s functionaries to work freely within or outside the NIT campus...