Dimapur, October 4 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland College Students Union (ENCSU) has called for resumption of its agitation with effect from October 5, with regard to the NSEE results 2016. A press note from the ENCSU informed that the agitation will continue till their demand for allocation of 4 MBBS seats reserved for BTs to the BT candidates is fulfilled.
The ENCSU had suspended its second phase of agitation at the request of the state government with the assurance that 4 MBBS seats would not be filled up till the Cabinet decided on it.
“It was only after the protestors started shouting demanding the outcome of the meeting, the Department requested the ENCSU Officials to meet the Director. The Protestors opposed the request. However, at the request and in respect of our apex organization, the ENCSU Officials met the Director. In the course of the meeting and in the presence of District Administration and Police, the Department again allowed the Parents and some non ENCSU Student Leaders to the meeting who threatened the ENCSU Team this time also,” the ENCSU recalled. Prior to Second Phase of Agitation, the ENCSU informed that an invitation was received from the Secretary, Higher and Technical Education for a meeting. In this meeting, the Secretary asked the ENCSU Official Team if we were sleeping till then. “However, as far as the ENCSU is concerned, we took up the issue right after the entrance test result was declared. The Secretary also asked the Union to point out the irregularities of the Department, to which the Union asked the Secretary to first reply to all the allegations that were published in the media from day one since the ENCSU took up the issue. The Department could not come up with to the point reply till today,” it alleged.
The ENCSU stated that the department officials campaigned to the Cabinet Ministers “visiting door to door to justify themselves before the Cabinet meeting.” “If the entrance test result and the selection process are fair, they needed no campaigning. The Department therefore, has to come out openly and admit their mistakes instead of trying to cover up by unjustified reasons,” it said.
It further expressed anger at the department for “failing to communicate officially with the ENCSU the outcome of the Cabinet meeting held on 26th September 2016 where the decision was taken to allocate 4 BDS seats in place of MBBS seats.” “The ENCSU has every right now to term the present Government as a failed Government for failing to rectify the misdeeds of the Department and also for failing to even communicate the decision,” it said.
It also cautioned that “if any unwanted situations arise in the course of the ensuing phases of agitation, the government will be held solely responsible for it has failed so far to redress the genuine demand of the Union.”
The agitation is set to begin on October 5, however emergency services, security forces, magistrates on duty and the students appearing end semester exam are exempted from the purview of the protest.
