Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday said investment in youth and education is important for sustainable development. “It is not just about building school and educational buildings or providing educational infrastructures and amenities, but our every decision is a part of the larger vision and goal we have for the state,” Sangma said after inaugurating the RMSA School at Mawlieh. The Chief Minister said that government focuses on suitable development throughout the state to ensure that development touches individual lives hence social sectors like education are the focused sectors for the government.
He also emphasized on the importance of communities and its culture and traditions and the integration of grassroots communities in the developmental journey of the state. Expressing satisfaction at the RMSA Mawlieh school building he urged the teachers at the school to remind themselves each day of the difference and impact that they can have on a student’s life. “Every moment you spend with you students, you are shaping the child’s future and will define what they will become, and I encourage you to look beyond the challenges and look at the larger purpose of you being a teacher, shaping the future of Meghalaya,” he said.
In his message to the students, the Chief Minister said that there are still many villages and students who do not have access to a proper educational infrastructure and stated, “Many schools still function from dilapidated schools consider yourselves fortunate to be studying in a school with a building, furniture and teachers like you have in this school and work hard to be successful,” he said.
The RMSA School Mawlieh was first established purely as a private school run by a community of seven villages in 1961 to provide education to the people of the area. It is one of the oldest educational centers in West Khasi Hills District especially in Rambrai Area and was later provincial zed to a fully Government UPS. Owing to non-availability of secondary schools in and around the area, the government in order to prevent the drop-out rate, took a decision to upgrade the school to secondary level under Samagra during the years 2014-2015, and to the higher secondary level in 2023-24.