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Members of the Dimapur unit of ANPSA after a meeting.[/caption]
Dimapur, Sep. 17 (EMN): The Dimapur unit of the All Nagaland Private Schools’ Association (ANPSA), held its general meeting at the DBDIL conference hall, Don Bosco Higher Secondary School on September 17.
A statement from the association on Monday informed that discussions were centred on its forthcoming silver jubilee in November. According to Andrew Ahoto, the president of ANPSA Dimapur unit, ‘ANPSA as a frontal organisation of the state would be donating INR 1.5 lakh towards the relief of the Nagaland landslide victims along with another INR 1.5 lakh towards the relief of Kerala flood-affected victims.’
“During the discussion hour, along with general issues of the ANPSA, the house also discussed at length on the need for all schools in Nagaland to have a common pattern of academic session, i.e from April to March. This, according to the house, would bring about uniformity in academic structure of schools in Nagaland with other schools across India.
“This was felt necessary as at present schools under the state boards (NBSE & BESE) carry out two separate final examinations, one for classes-LKG to IX in November-December and the other for classes-X to XII in February-March which leads to undue inconveniences for the smooth conduct of academic and co-curricular programs of individual schools while also creating pressure on the school management, teachers, parents and students.
“Boarding schools also face the brunt of this as they need to cater to the requirements of regular new session students as well as those appearing for the board examinations.
Moreover, the new batch of students from classes-LKG to IX join the schools at a time when the senior students are busy either preparing for their board examinations or appearing the same thereby creating undue disturbance in the day-to-day smooth functioning of schools especially those schools which act as examination centres.
The seriousness and momentum of the board examinations are also lost in this process,” the statement read.
