Students shocked at financial misappropriation
Dimapur, Sep. 22 (EMN): Shocked that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has revealed that academic scholarship funds were misused, the All Nagaland College Students Union (ANCSU) has demanded prosecution of officers of the Technical Education directorate.
The ANCSU issued a copy of a letter on Saturday addressed to the director of Technical Education demanding action for the alleged financial misappropriation.
The union expressed serious concern at what it stated was the misuse of scholarship funds by officials, stated to have been reported by the CAG in its report for the year ending March 31 2017.
“The ANCSU is shocked that as per the CAG report, the directorate of Technical Education has grossly misused the scholarship funds. The misappropriation and diversion of scholarship funds amounting to crores is a direct insult to the students’ community…” the union stated.
The ANCSU placed a question to the directorate of Technical Education: “…On what grounds it has the right to organize merry-making farewell functions, shamelessly purchasing its departmental needs, cowardly paying employees salary and self-proclaiming to be generous sponsors with the students scholarship meant only for payment of scholarship to the deserving students.”
The students called it “day-light robbery being boldly practiced by the officials.” The ANCSU has assured that it shall ‘in no condition’ leave any stone unturned to deliver justice to the students community ‘and at the same time book the concerned erring officials as per the law.’
The ANCSU has demanded that those officials involved in the alleged misappropriation and diversion of scholarship funds be ‘immediately terminated as they pose serious threat to the students’ community”; the directorate of Technical Education must to submit a detailed report in black and white to the union within five days ‘on the misappropriation and diversion of scholarship funds.’
The union “will not pay ears to any other reasons or excuses but only stand fervently with its demands; failing which the ANCSU will be compelled to initiate necessary course of action,” the letter added.
