Itanagar: A legislator in Arunachal Pradesh wants a new law that mandates every child, rich or poor, to spend some time in a government school.
Such a law will help restore the importance of government schools, says Nyamar Karbak, who represents Liromoba constituency in the Arunachal state legislative assembly.
“Each citizen should once go to government school to imbibe sense of responsibility toward government schools,” the 36-year-old Congress legislator said on June 28 while interacting with the staff, students and school management committee members at Kombo Secondary School under Aalo circle, reports arunachaltimes.in.
He expressed concern over diminishing performance of government schools in the border state. “The parents should also visit their children’s class once in six months, to access the progress of a child,” he added.
Later, Karbak presented one refrigerator to each teaching staff, two laptops to students who scored 10 CGPA in the tenth grade and three green boards to the school. The Kombo school, set up in 1958 and upgraded in 1992, is considered one of the best government schools in West Siang district. It has won the Education Department’s best government school award three times.
Kabrak became a legislator in a by-election held in February 2015. The seat had fallen vacant after the death of former chief minister Jarbom Gamlin on November 30, 2014.