Our Correspondent
Kohima | August 12
As part of its first phase of agitation, the Eastern Nagaland College Students’ Union (ENCSU) today staged sit-in-protest outside Secretariat Complex here and expressed its resentment against non fulfilment of its demand pertaining to NSEE-II result 2016.
Amongst the many placards reads ‘Review NSEE-II results 2016 immediately,’ ‘Justice has not been done to BTs in NSEE –II 2016,’‘We will not accept reservation with uniform cut-off mark,’ ‘Manipulation has deprived Eastern Nagaland of the opportunity to study technical course since the creation of Nagaland state’ etc.
Representatives from ENPO, ENSF and ENWO also addressed the gathering and extended their solidarity. Later, the Union submitted a representation to Chief Minister seeking his immediate intervention and necessary action “to address our demand mentioned in our memorandum which was submitted to Chief Secretary Nagaland on or before 15 August 2016, failing which the Union will take extreme action even by disturbing in the celebration of Independence Day.”
The Union stated that it had submitted two representations to the state government through the Director Technical Department and the Chief Secretary, Nagaland respectively.
The Union brought to the notice of Chief Minister that the ENCSU is not in position to accept the reply from the Government of Nagaland, Department of Higher &Technical Education dated August 11 2016 addressed to the chairman ENCSU as “the government has failed to addressed our genuine grievances.”
The representation was signed by ENCSU Chairman, M Longre Chang and Joint Secretary, Nokchem Angth. Earlier, the Union in its ultimatum dated 26/7/2016 addressed to the Chief Secretary, demanded that no counselling for the 2016-17 NSEE batch should be conducted without fulfilling the demands made by the ENCSU.
It also demanded immediate review of NSEE results 2016 which was declared on July 15, 2016 by the Technical Department vide no DTE/ESTT-2/12/2016-17 and allocate the 4 seats missing from the BTs quota to the candidates belonging to BTs, by conducting entrance re-examination solely for candidates belonging to BTs or award grace marks. It also demanded that backlog seats from past 1 year i.e 2015-16 should be given back to BTs without any consideration in order to deliver justice to the candidates from the deprived areas.
The ENCSU asked the government to strictly implement government notification vide No.HTE/RESERV/23-1/2012 (Pt) under reservation part II clause (a).
The Union also asked the government to strike out the Part III Selection Clause (d) from the same notification mentioned in the ENCSU ultimatum point no 4 as it is “against the BT reservation policy of the government.”
