Poor get poorer
As always, given the inequities built into the global economic system, the poorest people in the world have been the…
Viphoma village is about 70 km from Nagaland&’s state capital of Kohima but there is no proper road leading to it, says a report in the Dimapur-based Morung Express. In 1963, the government opened a primary school and in 2010, when Neiphiu Rio was chief minister, it was upgraded to the middle class level. Over the years the number of students has fallen from 86 to 37.
The vacant post of a teacher, who died a few years ago, is yet to be filled despite several representations to the education department. The school has had no science teacher for more than a year. According to head teacher Thinovilie Nakhro, there are nine teachers but two have gone for a B.Ed course and only seven are running the school somehow. For want of teachers. the school now runs only up to class VIII. The village education council chairman says even in the earlier years it had to hire private tutors, and there had been no grants either for maintenance or repair. The Angami Students’ Union that conducted an education tour in 2015 in the Angami region found that shortage of teachers was the biggest problem.
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