HTE Minister broaches the idea of the Univ setting up an institute here
Morung Express News
Dimapur | June 24
The 2014 batch of Naga students of Mewar University organized a thanksgiving programme in honour of the University’s chairman Dr. Ashok Kumar Gadiya on June 24.
Dr. Gadiya, who was instrumental in accommodating Naga students in the University at discounted fees in the aftermath of a scholarship debacle, was in attendance alongwith Minister for Higher & Technical Education (HTE) Temjen Imna Along Longkumer as special guests.
In 2015, around 150 students from Nagaland studying at a technical college in Uttar Pradesh were forced to leave the college midway after release of scholarships by the Nagaland state government were delayed.
The Naga students were admitted to pursue technical courses in the UP college through an ‘Education Initiative Programme’ of the Eastern Nagaland Students Union, Dimapur (ENSUD), while the fees were to be borne by the Post Matric Scholarship Scheme of the Central government routed through the state government.
The fees due to the technical college at the time were estimated to be over 150cr.
The ENSUD president of the time Honko Konyak said that Mewar University, Rajasthan led by its chairman Dr. Gadiya stepped in to help the stranded Naga students. Through this gesture, the students were able to continue and complete their courses in Mewar University at half the price of the actual fees.
In 2019, the students of the batch, alongwith the ENSUD organised a thanksgiving programme for Dr. Gadiya honouring his gesture.
Dr. Gadiya, in his speech, emphasized the importance of educating the youth, who makes up about three-fourth of the over 100cr population of India. “India has 70cr youths. Just imagine where our country will reach, if we bring all of these youths to the right track,” he said.
Stating that the aim of Mewar University is to give the “best teaching, best training and the best placement,” he added, “Education should produce confident and self reliant graduates, who can create their own means of livelihood.”
Pointing to the limited job vacancies in the government sector, he said that this should be understood by all.
As for the students, who have graduated from the University but is without a job, he said that he is ready to help find avenues for them too.
Minister Temjen Imna Along Longkumer while extending gratitude to Dr. Gadiya described the latter’s act as magnanimous. He expressed regret for the state government’s inability to release scholarships on time that resulted in an embarrassing situation for the state government at the time, at the same time, he assured to never allow such a situation to occur again.
As far as the status of technical and vocational education in Nagaland was concerned, he vouched for setting up “professional institutes of repute in Nagaland. In this regard, he broached the idea of Mewar University setting up a professional institute here in Nagaland too.
