Dimapur, June 27 (EMN): North Eastern Hill University Teachers Association (NEHUTA) has issued a legal notice on 27 June, 2017 to the Vice Chancellor of NEHU asking as to why no criminal proceeding was initiated against him.
In a press release issued by President, NEHUTA Prof. X. P. Mao it stated ‘the NEHUTA members have boycotted VC’s meeting today in protest against his brazen defiance of the Act and Statues of the university’. The VC of NEHU, Prof. S.K. Srivastava, had convened a general meeting comprising all the teaching and non-teaching employees of the University without any agenda, which was highly irregular and improper. All the teachers of NEHU on the appeal of NEHUTA Executive Committee had boycotted the meeting. The VC in the meeting informed the virtually empty house that he had decided to discontinue the payment of HASA to the employees of the University with effect from 14 June, 2017.
President, NEHUTA said ‘the VC has been stubborn to discontinue an allowance enjoyed by the employees of the university by virtue of a statutory provision in the form of OE 10 of the NEHU ordinance since January 1995. The MHRD letter (F.No.8-10/2011-Desk (U) Part II, dated 12/06/2017), which was in reply to a manipulated minutes of the Emergent Executive Council meeting held on 15 May, 2017, was used as an alibi by the VC to repeal the ordinance OE 10. Although the VC had admitted to the press of having committed an ‘inadvertent mistake’ by sending the manipulated minutes, he had refused to take corrective measures to communicate the truth to the MHRD and the office of the visitor President added.
The teaching community in the university has strongly condemned the most reprehensible act of the VC to misguide the MHRD as well as the office of the Visitor by blatantly demeaning his official position.
The president said ‘the university is reeling under development paralysis for a long time with both infrastructure and academic growth of the university coming to a virtual standstill. There is no sufficient hostel for the students and half of the faculties are staying in rented houses. As per the UGC regulation 2010, clause 6.3.1, the university is under obligation to process and complete CAS in every six months. The VC has been dilly dallying ever since he had joined the university to begin the process of CAS promotion of the teachers who are languishing without any career growth for more than four years leading to deep frustration and lack of motivation among the faculty members causing huge impact on the overall academic climate of the university. The VC has unceremoniously exposed himself as a ‘pathological manipulator’ of official documents of the statutory bodies of the university as on several earlier occasions he had taken recourse to similar tactics.
