Dimapur, March 21 (EMN): The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) has announced that it shall no longer 'cooperate' with the Nagaland government and shall stop attending classes and academic activities if the state fails in crediting their scholarships by March 26.
The ANCSU issued a press release on Wednesday expressing resentment at the authorities for what was implied to be failure to address grievances of the students.
The state's govt. had assured the students' community that positive steps would be taken to make sure that the scholarship for 2016-17 would be paid before Dec. 25 2017. However, the state 'miserably failed,' the union stated.
The ANCSU has asked the chief minister to intervene immediately 'in regard to the remaining Rs 7.71 crore' for 11, 335 Scheduled Tribe students from 69 institutions who are yet to receive their due.
"The state government is making an amusement of the genuine demands and the memorandum put forth by ANCSU towards releasing the deserving student’s scholarships or to make alternative arrangements to make sure that the beneficiaries receives the scholarship," the union remarked.
Further, the union stated that it had sought appointments with the chief minister and the minister in concern to discuss the issue.
"However no appointment has been granted to ANCSU till date. The ANCSU is dismayed over the matter for turning a deaf ear towards the genuine cause. The ANCSU is neither informed nor witnessed any developments taken place on the issue. The state govt. should stop fooling the students’ community by making lame excuses and by giving fake assurances," the students said.
'The ANCSU has lost its patience and shall no longer co-operate any further with the state govt. Failing to credit the scholarship amount in the respective bank accounts of 11, 335 deprived beneficiaries by the 26th March 2018, the ANCSU will abstain from attending regular classes and shall not allow any college to function," the union declared.
"It is also to inform the state govt. that ANCSU shall not be held responsible if any untoward situation arises out of its intervention," it added.
