Teachers’ associations unhappy over inaction of University authority
DIMAPUR, MAY 31 (MExN): Central Executive Council, Nagaland University Teachers’ Association (CEC, NUTA), and Nagaland University Teachers’ Association, Lumami (NUTA-L) have strongly condemned the harassment and assault meted out to students, staff members and faculty by some miscreants along the highway between Mokokchung and Nagaland University, Lumami on May 19, 2016.
According to a joint press statement from the two associations, a group of miscreants forcefully halted and stopped the bus in which University students, staffs and teachers were travelling and even assaulted a senior teaching faculty without any provocation from the victims.
After the harassment meted out in the highway, the miscreants reportedly entered the University campus disrupting the academic environment and threatened individual teacher with "dire consequences" on the pretext of tendering apology.
The associations also expressed concern that ten days since the life-threatening incident, Nagaland University authority was yet to inform the concerned district administration of Mokokchung district under whose jurisdiction the incident took place.
Such inaction on the part of the University authority is giving more scope to the perpetrators to further traumatise the University community, they stated.
The associations resolved that until appropriate and timely action is taken to redress the issue they will continue with its demand.
