Education official pushes for inclusive education in state

Our Reporter
Dimapur, Jan. 24 (EMN): Additional District Education Officer, Dimapur, Limatula on Monday stated that inclusive education should be implemented in the right direction in the state and urged to recognise the rights of children.

She was speaking during the community awareness and sensitisation programme on Inclusive Education, NIPUN Bharat, Vocational education, Out of School Children (OoSC) under Right to Education Act, 2009 held at Auditorium Hall, Holy Cross Higher Secondary School, Dimapur. The programme was organised by Nagaland Education Mission Society, Samagra Shiksha.

She urged the participants to be the agents and instruments of change in society. Limatula shared that the event was being held with an aim to focus on the drop out and out of school children and disabled children, and appealed to everyone to be inventive and innovative.

Chumbeni Kikon, Joint Mission Director, SMA-Samagra Shiksha, highlighted about the various activities and programmes under Samagra Shiksha and asked the participants to come together to sensitise the people as a community.

She lamented that in the past two years, they had not been able to work out in a phased manner due to the pandemic.

Highlighting some of the activities, she shared that there were women hostels in the educationally backward blocks including Kiphire, Mon, Tuensang and Longleng. She maintained that there was a women’s hostel in Noklak as well but there is no DEO, therefore it was clubbed together with Tuensang district.

She also shared that they were providing smart televisions to schools, and ‘since Kiphire is an aspirational district, we have given tablets with pre-loaded content to all the students from classes 8-12, so that they can study even if they face internet problems.

Resource persons for the programme were Nukshi Angh, Chumbeni Kikon, Lanusongla and Bijano Murry on the topics vocational education, skill hub and out of school education, inclusive education and NIPUN Bharat respectively.