Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University, Professor Kannan and NUTA leader Rosemary Dzuvichu shaking hands after the successful reconciliatory meeting at Kohima today.
The meeting was attended by the Naga Hoho and representatives of frontal civil organizations including the NUTA and NU officials. This photo was taken by Chief Secretary Lalhuma, who had chaired and convened the meeting on behalf of the State Government.
Dimapur, Sep 27 : Officials of the state government, Nagaland University, representatives of the NUTA and Naga civil society met today and decided on a number of affirmations to resume the institution’s long-defunct academic activities.
A joint statement was received here today where it was decided that the vice chancellor of Nagaland University shall, with immediate effect, revoke the suspension of eight members of NUTA and also drop the charges being framed against them in departmental inquiries.
All the members of NUTA are to resume their academic duties on the day following the revocation of the suspension orders against the eight teachers. The teachers are also to simultaneously withdraw their resignations from the various university councils, committees, departments as well as their demand for the removal of the VC, Registrar and the Controller of Examination.
The NUTA, the PGSU and the non-teaching staffers are to refrain from any form of agitation that could result in disruption of normal functioning of the university or academic classes in the campuses. All the grievances of the teachers, students and non-teaching staffers are now to be addressed to the university through a grievance cell, constituted by the university “within one week”.
The joint statement was appended by Nagaland Chief Secretary Lalhuma, VC Prof. K Kannan, president of NUTA Rosemary Dzuvichu, presidents of the PGSUs, and presidents and leaders of the Naga Hoho, Naga Mothers’ Association, the ENPO, NSF, ENSF, AWO, NSCF and ANCSU.
Interestingly, while the imbroglio in the university stood resolved with the intervention of the state government and civil society, hundreds of post-graduate students continued with their peaceful office-picketing of the university head office today.
As the joint meeting began at 1 PM in the Chief Secretary’s conference hall, the agitating PGSU students were seeing anxiously waiting for the outcome of the meeting, in uncertainty. However, as the long wait drew to an end at around 4.30 pm with news on the successful outcome of the meeting trickling in, jubilant students were heard singing “we shall overcome”. Of course, some could be seen taking a playful jibe or two at the withdrawing Fire and Police personnel who were deployed at the site of the agitation.
During the joint meeting, it was learnt that various speakers had fired salvos both at the Vice Chancellor and also the NUTA for the imbroglio. Some of the speakers, it was said, had also lashed out at the vice chancellor with allegations of fuelling the problem on tribal and communal lines.
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