Morung Express News
DIMAPUR | FEB 9
DESPITE CONTINUOUS threats from the NSCN-K, of dire consequences against the Nagaland government’s decision to allow students from the four hill districts of Manipur to sit for the 2007 HSLC examinations under the NBSE, students sat for the second day for their papers peacefully with no reports of any disturbances at the three centres of examinations - one at Viswema, Kohima and two in Dimapur.
Students from the south seems to have not been much affected by the outfit’s warning/threats rather were much concerned about their careers. “Actually I am not worried about the threats but what I fear most is about my results- whether I would be able to come out with flying colors or not as I didn’t have enough time to prepare for it,” said a student from Chandel district. “Of now that’s all what bothers me” he added.
Struggling to get through the exams, the students are compromising situations by sleeping on floors and sharing inadequate toilet/bathroom facilities as well as poor lighting and accommodation facilities in buildings (most are with only half-constructed walls), the students seems to have ignored the part of comfort needed for studies. When asked about the conditions of the accommodations arranged for their stay, one student said, “I don’t deny that the conditions that we are living right now is very pitiful, but it’s secondary” and continues, “The first and the foremost priority is our studies and I thank everyone responsible for the safety of our short-stay.” Round-the-clock police security protection has been arranged by the district administration in the places where the students from Manipur hill districts are lodged as well as at the examinations centers.
Further, while speaking to The Morung Express one such southern Naga student appealed to the collective leaders of the NSCN-K to sympathetically not gamble with their own Naga fellow brothers into the political struggle. “Students are the future of any human society and should not be brought under the Indo-Naga political issue.”
Whatever might be the reason responsible for the present unrest, the general view is that they are more worried about their careers and that the students’ community should not be dragged into the present political conflict between the various groups of the Naga undergrounds.
