DIMAPUR, NOV 9 (MExN): The Chairman and the General Secretary of the North East Students’ Organization (NESO) through a press communiqué has conveyed that the organization would suspend its course of agitation due to the assurance given to the NESO by the authority of the BSNL today during the process of BSNL office picketing at Dimapur.The NESO has stated that the BSNL authority has made it clear that it would give a written reply of the assurance to the office of NESO through Dimapur Naga Students’ Union on or before November 21with clear indication on the Charter of Demand put forward by the NESO and added that the BSNL has also assured that it would do so in a time bound manner within which the demand would be materialized. In particular reference to the 150 jobs in the group C & D category that was appointed by the BSNL over the last number of years for which the NESO had demanded that their appointment should be cancelled, the NESO has told that the BSNL has assured to put a halt to the regularization process of the 150 employees and to hold further meeting with the NESO which would be conducted at the earliest.
The NESO also informed that BSNL had handed over 500 forms to the NESO under the facility of WLL (TARANG) which has a special concession for the students to avail telephone facility. The NESO has expressed its heartfelt gratitude to the students’ volunteers of DNSU for participating in the picketing because of whom the picketing was successful. The NESO has also made it clear to the BSNL authorities that the Organization would have no hesitation to resume its suspended agitation at any point of time, if the BSNL failed to materialize the agreed points of the meeting between the NESO and the BSNL held today.
