Imphal, Sep 17
After 11 days of closure, all schools, colleges and technical institutions were reopened across Manipur on Tuesday, even as the security forces continued their intensive combing and search operations in most of the districts.
Education Department officials said that though students in most of the schools, colleges and technical institutions attended classes on Tuesday but in some institutions the attendance was less.
“We expect that attendance of students in all schools and colleges would be normal from Wednesday,” a senior official said.
Director of Education, L Nandakumar Singh and Joint Secretary, Higher and Technical Education, Laishram Dolie Devi had on Monday issued separate orders for reopening of all government, government-aided, and private schools, colleges and technical institutions from Tuesday.
After several incidents of violence in different districts between September 1 and 7, that left 20 people injured and claimed 12 lives, including that of two women, the Manipur government closed educational institutions across the state on September 6.
Subsequently, thousands of students held protests in Imphal and other places for two days on September 9 and 10, in support of their demands which included the removal of the Director General of Police and the Chief Security Advisor to the state government for their alleged inability to deal with the rising violence.