HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, Oct 19: Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K
Sangma on Thursday said that the youth are the greatest
assets and resource of the State and Government is
committed to ensure that the potential of the youth is
harnessed to its optimum.
“It is our duty as a Government to ensure that we keep the
youngsters right at the centre of what we are trying to do for
our State… sometimes Government focuses too much on
scheme based governance… scheme based governance is a
very, very narrow way of looking at things because when you
look at a scheme, you only want to implement the scheme…
and you don’t understand the purpose of implementing the
scheme. However, we keep the youth in front of us and make
the decision,” he said.
“It is the responsibility of all the stakeholders involved to play
their part in ensuring that every young person is nurtured
and guided to become productive, committed, patriotic,
discipline and God fearing Citizens, he said while addressing
at the Golden Jubilee celebration of the Meghalaya Board of
School Education (MBoSE).
The three day grand celebration of the MBoSE which
concluded on Thursday was also attended by education
minister, Rakkam A Sangma, chief secretary DP Wahlang,
amongst other dignitaries and officials from different parts of
the State.
“Meghalaya is a small State as compared to other states in
the country like Uttar Pradesh; so, in order for the State to be
at the crest of success and development, we have to make
sure that we produce quality personnel in order to compete
and contribute for the growth and development of the
State,” he remarked, while enlightening the gathering on the
State’s ambitious plan to be amongst the Top 10 states in the
country.
Acknowledging the contributions of the founder and the
leaders, who despite several challenge had conceptualised to
start the board in 1973, while the State was young after
being carved out of Assam.
“I would like to pay tribute to all our leaders who have
sacrificed a lot to make life changing decisions with
numerous challenges as well as with limited resources at that
time, to make MBOSE reach such a milestone. It is indeed a
momentous occasion and would like to congratulate
everyone who have made it possible for MBOSE to celebrate
50 years of its functioning and existence”, he added.
Talking about numerous challenge in the education sector, he
said “The education sector is currently facing numerous
challenges but it should not deter us to strive to make our
education sector one of the topmost in the country. We have
initiated intervention to better the infrastructure and
learning curve in the elementary as well as higher secondary
section.”
He further urged all the stakeholders involved including
administrators, teachers, students and especially parents to
strive developing young persons who are nurtured and
guided to become productive.
Speaking on the occasion, education minister Rakkam A
Sangma, said, “There is no precise device to measure the
quality of an individual other than through education. I look
forward to the leadership of our chief minister in furthering
the development of education in the State”.
Chief secretary D P Wahlang, said, “The journey of MBoSE
has been a long like a football match. At halftime MBoSE was
restructured in 2006 since its inception in 1973. Now at 2023,
we are celebrating 50 years. The first board exam of MBoSE
took place in 1974 and less than 3800 examinees and has had
a quantum jump more than 80,000 both in the metric and
class XII exams.”
He further pointed that our literacy rate changed
dramatically from 24.49% to 80 % till date with the increase
in educational institutions from 40-50 to 2923 schools
affiliated to MBOSE of which 18166 are secondary schools
and 421 are higher secondary schools.
