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Time of India
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Protests intensify in Nagaland as students demand fair recruitment process for assistant professors
KOHIMA: Student groups and job aspirants in Nagaland launched protests on Tuesday against the state government's decision to regularise 147 ad-hoc and contract assistant professors in colleges under the Directorate of Higher Education (DHE). The Naga Students' Federation (NSF), following the expiry of a seven-day deadline, began its first phase of agitation with a march from Naga Solidarity Park to the DHE office, where students staged a sit-in. On the other hand, the Combined Technical Aspirants Nagaland (CTAN) and Nagaland NET Qualified Forum (NNQF) are initiating the second protest. This is the resumption of their second phase after a temporary suspension of four days. Both protesters are demanding the immediate revocation of the April 21 order of the state government that regularised these appointments and insisting that the posts be filled through open competition via the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) to ensure equal opportunity. NSF president Medovi Rhi criticized the government's move, calling it a violation of meritocracy. "Fairness is not negotiable, but the government has given injustice to the Naga students and aspirants thereby denying opportunity to the hard work of the youngsters," he said. "We seek no favour but demand what is rightfully ours," Rhi said. He asserted that until and unless justice is delivered NSF would not remain silent. Irked over the government not fulfilling its demand, the NSF supporters tried to lock the DHE complex, but police personnel deployed there stopped them. CTAN and NNQF leaders and volunteers are gathered outside the DHE. Besides the two common demands with NSF, CTAN and NNQF are also seeking dissolution of the High Powered Committee constituted by the government to investigate the details of the matter. "Even as the volunteers are angry over the failure of the government to fulfil our demands and also suggesting stringent measures including hunger-strike, we have resumed the second phase agitation in a peaceful mode," said Meshenlo Kath, convener of CTAN while interacting with reporters. The combined team of CTAN and NNQF had launched an agitation on April 21 but temporarily suspended it on April 25 following the verbal assurance of the Minister for Higher Education to revoke the regularization order and also dissolve the HPC. On Monday, the state cabinet decided to slash the time given to the HPC to submit its report from eight weeks to four weeks. For real-time updates, follow our AP SSC 10th Result 2025 Live Blog.
Time of India
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Nagaland to revoke order on regularisation of 147 contractual posts
Dimapur: The Nagaland govt will revoke the Dec 17, 2024, cabinet order for absorption or regularisation of 147 contractual assistant professors and librarians. Nagaland higher education minister Temjen Imna Along said this to the Combined Technical Association Nagaland (CTAN) and the Nagaland NET Qualified Forum (NNQF) during a meeting at his home in Kohima on Saturday. It was also decided to dissolve the committee formed at the emergency cabinet meeting on April 21 to go into the issue, CTAN and NNQF said in a joint release after the meeting. The release added that the CTAN and NNQF leaders attended the meeting on the invitation of the minister. However, the CTAN and NNQF said if the formal written copies of the revocation order and the committee dissolution documents, as assured by the minister, are not received by Monday afternoon, the agitation against the absorption to the 147 posts will be escalated beyond the level of the previous four days. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum – No Wallet Needed! IC Markets Start Now Undo Both the organisations will hold an official press conference on Monday after the formal documents are released. The Naga Students Federation (NSF) on Saturday directed all its federating units to mobilise volunteers to assemble at Naga Solidarity Park, Kohima, to initiate the first phase of democratic agitation if the state govt fails to revoke the Dec 17, 2024, cabinet order. The NSF issued the directive as per its resolution adopted during its presidential council meeting held on Friday and in view of the seven-day ultimatum served to the state govt on April 22, which will expire on Monday, demanding the revocation of the cabinet order. The federation said it firmly stands against the "arbitrary" and "unjustified" regularisation order, which is detrimental to the future of countless deserving aspirants and undermines the sanctity of meritocracy and transparency in governance. "This notification is issued for strict compliance in the larger interest of the student community and the future of merit-based governance in the state of Nagaland," the NSF said in a release.
