Dimapur Feb 10 (MExN): The Nagaland University Non Teaching Staff Association (NUNTSA) representing the non-teaching Staff of all the three campuses of NU while reiterating that it was compelled to take the path of agitation to express its resentment over the inability of the University authority in ensuring a conducive working atmosphere at Lumami campus, also disagreed that no staffers were harassed by the Lumami land donors.
A letter from the NUNTSA issued by the executives Imchatoshi, President, Kughavi Sema, Vice-President and Wabang Aonok stated that the land donors of Lumami prevented the staffers from attending the office on several occasions on the pretext that they were unhappy with the University authorities. “On many occasions the Non Teaching Staff were directed not to enter the office premises, the last being in the month of November 2005. While we have no objectives to the land donors expressing their grievances to the authority concerned, we are aggrieved because of several occasions the Non-teaching Staff in particular are victimized and the academic activities are jeopardized in general” it stated.
Reminding that the NUNTSA, on realizing that the root cause of the frequent interference of land donors in the functioning of the University campus is the non-settlement of land ownership issue at Lumami, the organization had had earlier demanded that all the developmental activities at Lumami Campus be halted till the issue was settled.
Stating that the association had now exhausted its tolerance and therefore, decided to express its resentment by way of a three-phase agitation which began on February 6 2006, the NUNTSA appealed to all concerned to bear with the inconveniences that may be created during the course of agitation.
