Kohima, Apr 14 : The teachers of Nagaland University have decided to resume classes from tomorrow following an assurance from the Centre to constitute a fact-finding committee to probe the alleged anomalies and irregularities in the institution.
All the three campuses of Nagaland University, Lumami, Kohima and Medziphema, have remained closed since April 7, after the teachers decided to go on a ceasework to protest financial irregularities in the university.
They charged vice-chancellor K. Kannan with siphoning of crores of rupees and demanded that he be removed immediately.
The Nagaland University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) president, Rosemary Dzuvichu, today said they have accepted the assurance of the ministry of human resource development officials and decided to resume classes from tomorrow.
Dzuvichu said the ministry of human resource development officials would request the chief rector of the university, who is also the Governor of Nagaland, K. Shankaranarayanan, to arrange a visit for the fact-finding committee.
The committee will be constituted within a month’s time.
Kannan, on the other hand, today warned the agitating teachers of penalty if they continued with the indefinite strike on the university campuses.
Resorting to strikes by ignoring the “legitimate processes” would be regarded as illegal and the teachers would be penalised under civil and criminal consequences, he said.
“The Nagaland University cannot and must not be made subservient to anybody,” the vice-chancellor said.
If the impasse continued, the university authorities would have no other option but to invoke the appropriate provision of law in the interest of the students, he said.
Telegraph India
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