Dimapur, May 13 (EMN): The Eastern Nagaland College Students' Union (ENCSU) has sought the department of Higher Education to address at the earliest the demand of the union that the authorities address various grievances associated with the education sector in the eastern region.
The ENCSU issued a press release to the media on Saturday stating that the union was not satisfied with the response from the “former director” of Higher Education. “However, the union had agreed to give few more days as verbally requested by the additional director (who will be taking up the charge of the director) when the ENCSU official meet (sic) her in the first week of May but the ENCSU would like to remind the department that the union will not allow any colleges within its jurisdiction to function without sufficient teachers from next semester.”
The group acknowledged the “prompt action” of the government and the department to post “the principal” at Wangkhao College, in Mon and Yingli College, in Longleng. However, the ENCSU urged the government and the department to “post the principal who can be physically and practically present in the college.”
It has been for more than two years that Yingli College at Longleng has been functioning without a principal, the union lamented. ‘Therefore, the ENCSU can't accept the posting of designated principal at Yingli College, Longleng transferred from Sao Chang College, Tuensang who was found absent from his bounded duty during our visit to Sao Chang College reportedly due to poor health,’ the press release stated. The union has urged the government and the department to make an alternative arrangement at the earliest.
Further, the union demanded that the department take disciplinary action against “irregular teaching staffs and the action taken report should be correspondent to the union for further necessary action.”
If the department fails to take action against the erring staffers, the union warned, the ENCSU will take an own course of action. “The department should also cancel all the teachers out at attachment immediately,” it stated.
Another matter that the ENCSU raised was that the new building of Zisaji Presidency College in Kiphire “should be electrify and provide all the basic necessity before shifting to the new site.” The group acknowledged the department for providing a brand new bus to Zisaji Presidency College. That stated, the union has asked the government and the department to “sanction the required buses as mentioned in our memorandum to all the colleges.”
Further, the ENCSU appealed to the authorities to take immediate action in constructing staff quarters and “the border fencing.” The union stated that land encroachment has been ‘increasing rapidly.’
When the citizens of the eastern region “sacrificed their land for the sake of development and education,” the union lamented, the government “cannot do anything good to the people of the eastern Nagaland especially when it comes to higher education.”
Likewise, the ENCSU lamented as “painful” to see students suffer during examination “due to non-completion of the syllabus.”
“It is the matter of fact that our colleges has (sic) to run with single teacher or even without a teacher in some subject (department) whereas the same department/subject in colleges from other part of the district is manning by excess teachers,” the union stated.
“Therefore, we call upon the government and the department to deliver justice to the downtrodden people. Education is a pillar for the society and the state but if we are not provided with the quality education than we can't hope for any bright future.”
