Taking serious note of the ongoing impasse between the Nagaland University authority and the Nagaland University Teachers’ Association (NUTA), the State government has convened a meeting Friday at 1p.m in the conference hall of the chief secretary.
State chief secretary Lalhuma in a notice said the meeting will discuss measures to resolve the present University imbroglio and requested NGOs, civil societies, student organizations, representatives of NU including vice chancellor and NUTA, and senior government officials to attend the meeting. The situation at the University office remained tense Thursday as PGSU members shouted slogans as part of their picketing, which entered the third day today.
The vice chancellor in a letter addressed to PGSU presidents of the three campuses assured the students that normal academic activities would be restored by September 30.
Later in the afternoon, DC Kohima Sacophra Vero also addressed the PGSU students and urged them to call off their agitation.
Meanwhile, there are speculations that the government might impose Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA), as per the request of NU authority.
The vice chancellor is also reported to have issued an order “No work, no pay” with effect from September 23, even as the students told media persons Wednesday that the teachers had been signing their attendance registers, though they had not taken classes for the past twenty nine days.
NUTA informs PGSU
NUTA has informed PGSU of the three campuses that the teachers had agreed to withdraw the en-masse resignation in the interest of the students and to prevent any untoward violence, although the VC had categorically said that the resignation was not valid.
“The assurance was agreed upon by both NUTA and NSF, provided the VC unconditionally revokes the illegal suspension orders and withdraws the false articles of charges against the eight teachers. This is in the hope to resolve the impasse created by Prof. Kannan,” NUTA said in a press statement.