Our Correspondent
Kohima Oct. 9 (EMN): The Nagaland University Students’ Union of Lumami campus has questioned the state government, especially the department of Higher and Technical Education, for its failure to disburse postgraduate scholarship for the year 2017-18.
The union expressed resentment at what it stated was the department’s consistent failure and trend of the department to disburse yearly scholarship. According to the union, the state’s Higher and Technical Education department was depriving students of their rights as well as hampering the academic growth of the student community at the same time.
In mid-August this year, it informed, the union officials met the department authorities to discuss the issue of scholarship delay “and to our dismay it was found that the scholarship forms of the students have been rejected on the basis that the students’ percentage did not fulfil the criteria for merit scholarship.
“But, this was not the case as most of the student's percentage was eligible for merit scholarship. After a thorough deliberation, the authorities assured that they'll probe into the matter and deny no students of their rightful scholarship. However, it has been a month and a half and there has been no sign of positive development from the concerned authorities,” according to the union.
It asked the department concerned whether its stance have been justified and ‘how long will the department take to re-verify the scholarship forms and disburse the scholarship to the students.’ It stated that the department was well apprised of the fact that most students rely on their scholarship for payment of their annual fees and fulfilling other academic needs.
Vowing to ‘stand and safeguard the interest of the students’ community,’ the union asked the department concerned to give clarification on the issue and disburse scholarship at the earliest; failing to do so would result in further course of action for which department and state government will solely be held responsible, it warned.
