DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 4 (MExN): The Central Executive Council (CEC) of the Nagaland University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) for the three NU campuses have unanimously resolved to endorse the decision of the FEDCUTA and AIFUCTO to organise a joint action program on October 5 to observe International Teachers Day, by taking mass casual leave. A press statement from the CEC-NUTA said that the protest is against the service conditions in terms of denial of regular promotions, pension; lack of university autonomy, democratic structures of governance and democratic space for dissent, discussion and debate; quality of education by degradation and vandalisation of course structures and syllabi, examination systems and promotion of quantity rather than quality in research; and regarding public funding of education by increasing budget cuts and privatization and commercialization of education. The NUTA members from all the three campuses are set to take mass casual leave on October 5 and display banners in support of the FEDCUTA, the statement informed.
