Tura: Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Thursday said 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.
Addressing the golden jubilee function of the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE) here in West Garo Hills district, the Chief Minister that it is the 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, which is a 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,” Sangma said.
“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 founders and the leaders, who despite several challenges had conceptualized to start the MBoSE in 1973, while the State was young after being carved out of Assam, the Chief Minister said, “The education sector is currently facing numerous challenges but it should not deter us to strive to make it 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 added : “The role of MBOSE goes beyond creating syllabus and curriculum for our schools and certification of students and its role as the guiding light of our education system is instrumental in certifying the success of Meghalaya through its young people”.
