Landowners’ to take appropriate action against NUNTSA
Morung Express News
Dimapur | February 4
NAGALAND UNIVERSITY Vice-Chancellor Professor GD Sharma today while asserting that the university has nothing to do with Lumami’s land donors demanding a job-quota in the C & D categories for Lumami villagers, said that the demands will not be met since creation of new post or filling them depends only on the University Grants Commission (UGC).
“Filling any vacancies or creating new posts depends on the UGC and about 36% of the filled vacancies (in the C & D categories) have already been regularized on full scale. The NU would not be meeting the demands” Professor GD Sharma said last night adding that there were no more posts to be filled.
The Vice-Chancellor also maintained that the present site of the Lumami Campus was bought free of cost and so it actually was also free from meeting any obligations or encumbrances. “The university did not enter into any Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the filling of vacancies in the demanded job categories. We did not make any commitment. It is free from any encumbrances” he maintained.
Meanwhile, IK Sema, Spokesperson for Lumami land donors has cautioned against the Nagaland University Non-Teaching Staff Association (NUNTSA) for leveling charges of harassment allegedly by the landowners against the staff and students. “We will respond appropriately for the NUNTSA’s allegations (that the land donors meted out harassment to them).
The allegations will have to be substantiated with proof.” IK Sema said while denying that staffers were harassed in any way. “No body was harassed. The NUNTSA dictating what the landowners should do and what not to do is serious. We will take action” he assured.
To the query if any compromise could be made regarding the impasse and that if any assurances from the NU authorities were yet, he said that there were none. “We are not demanding.
We are only asking what were committed to us” Sema said adding that the land donors have been humiliated by the treatment. “We have been humiliated. Till now not a single Lumami villager has got any regularized post” he claimed. Sema assured that more follow-up action would be initiated to resolve the issue.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that even after assurances from authorities that classes would commence from January 15, most of the lecturers and administrative staff at the Lumami campus continue to be away from duties reportedly for fear of repercussion from land owners while the suffering students have nothing to do other than stay in the hostel.
The administrative wing has remained closed till now while two departments have been locked-up, according to students. It was also informed that all the cooks, maintenance and amenities personnel would be going on strike coming Wednesday.
There is also acute scarcity of water and “instead of attending classes for knowledge we spend our time looking for water” according to one distraught student. The science students are the one hit hardest. “Ever since the beginning of this semester, we have had only about two weeks of classes while there have virtually been no practicals. We can’t bear it any longer and we are losing our patience” fumed one MSc sophomore from Lumami.
