Even as the Right to Education Act aimed at ensuring free and compulsory education to children below 14 years of age was implemented all over the country from last year, the same Act has no meaning for the people of Maibung Kom Village in Senapati just 20 km far away from Imphal.In a strange case, contrary to the purpose of the Act, students of Maibung Kom LP school have been sidelined from the facilities of the RTE act. About 50 students of the village are reading in the school manned by about two teachers with no facilities of Mid day meal, school uniform under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan while students reading in other schools are enjoying various facilities under SSA.A recent visit by a team of Imphal Times reporters at Maibung Kom village located under Saikul sub division under Senapati district found that the government school was in a complete dilapidated condition with no walls on four sides, poor infrastructures. It almost looked like a cowshed. Government has failed to take up any measures to repair the dilapidated school despite umpteen appeals from the villagers.With about 400 population of Kom Community with 200 households, Maibung Kom LP School is the one and only educational institution for the students of the village, from where many brilliant students had earlier groomed out. The school has class Nursery to class II. Since there is no other school in the village, almost children of the village are studying in the school as they cannot afford expenses to study in the well established schools in Imphal or outside. Those children from sound family background do not study in the school, they left the village and are studying in good schools in Imphal, said Village chief Chothang Kom.The school had only four government teachers. Their number was again reduced to two when one of them was transferred.Apart from the poor educational facilities, the village is facing acute shortage of drinking water, health care facilities. There is no any primary health centre in the village. The villagers have to visit RIMS or JNIMS for availing health care facilities. For road connectivity, thanks to Manipur Legislative Speaker Th Lokeshor who is also Khundrakpam AC MLA for repairing the village road connecting Haraorou Tangkham village.
