Nagaland | Student Body ANCSU Begins 'Indefinite Hunger Strike'

Kohima, June 4, 2019:

The All Nagaland College Students' Union (ANCSU) is holding an 'indefinite hunger fast' outside the new secretariat in Kohima demanding the immediate resignation of the Director, Technical Education, Nagaland.

The director has been accused of misappropriating of State Technical Scholarship funds amounting to 1.32 crores. In a letter addressed to the the Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, the body has stated its various demands.

The ANCSU has put forward a set of demands. Firstly, they have demanded the sacking of the Director, Technical Education, Nagaland. Secondly, they have demanded immediate action on Nodal cell to implement all kinds of scholarship skills.

Thirdly, they have demanded the settlement of land issues related to colleges including the Kohima Science College. Fourthly, they have demanded immediate advertisement of the 110 Assistant Professor sanctioned through the Nagaland Public Service Commission under department of higher education, Nagaland.

Lastly, the ANCSU has demanded immediate investigation on all kinds of scholarship schemes implemented by both the both state and as well as central Governments.

Earlier, following the expiry of the ultimatum served to the Director of Technical Education (DTE) to resign within 5 days, several students representing various colleges based in Kohima under the banner of All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) staged a peaceful dharna around the Technical Education Directorate, Kohima.

ANCSU reiterated its demand for resignation of the Director and placed a banner which read: ‘Give us the answer.’ The dharna was peaceful and no untoward incident was reported.

The union had demanded that the official “resign on moral grounds” within five days, adding that failure to do so would make him “responsible for any untoward incident that may occur thereafter.”

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