Our Correspondent
Diphu, Sep. 18 (EMN): Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Karbi Anglong Division demands to go by the J.M Lyngdoh Committee in order to include the president’s post in the Diphu Govt. College Students Union Society (DGCSUS).
The president’s post of DGCSUS is still being held by the principal and the ABVP, Karbi Anglong Division has demanded the post to be included in the DGCSUS ahead of the union body election for the session 2017-18 of the college to be held on Sep. 22.
Convenor, ABVP, Karbi Anglong Division Jiten Bey and his team including Waisong Tokbi, Convenor, ABVP, West Karbi Anglong and members Sachin Rongpi and Robinson Kro met Principal, DGC Nirab Kr. Sarma on the matter why the college has not followed as per the JM Lyngdok Committee and keeping the post of president of the Union Body under his custody, which according to the committee no faculty or any members of the college authority are not allowed to hold any posts.
It may be mentioned here that the JM Lyngdok Committee was constituted by Ministry of Human Resource Development Govt. of India on December 2, 2005, by an order by Supreme Court. JM Lyndok (former Chief Election Commissioner) Committee submitted its report to the Supreme Court of India on May 26, 2006. The Court on September 22, 2006 directed the recommendation of the Committee to implement in all colleges and Universities and other higher educational institutions in conducting the elections of the union bodies.
One of the point put in the recommendation by the committee as accepted by the Court was ‘the union/representative body so elected shall only comprise of regular students on the rolls of the institution. No faculty member, nor any member of the administrative shall be premited to hold any post on the execution of such representative body, nor shall be allowed to be a member of any such representative body.’
Convenor, ABVP, Karbi Anglong Division Jiten Bey told the Principal that the JM Lyngdok Committee was constituted in 2006 and all colleges and Universities across the country are following it, then why the DGC is not following while holding for the Union body election. Also according to the JM Committee recommendation no faculty or administrative member are not allowed to hold any posts in the Union Body, then why the post of president is being held by the Principal.
The post of the president should be included in the union body and not by the principal which means the election is illegal, Bey said.The Principal informed the whole election process to conduct the DGCSUS election for 2017-18 sessions from September 12. The filing of nomination papers is between September 15 to 19, campaigning on 21 and speech making on 22 September. Polling and counting of result on 22 September.
