Dimapur, August 12 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) today said to have rejected invitations from the government to resolve the ongoing issue related to teachers’ positing in the eastern regions of the state. According to the ENSF, the reason is the “failure of the state government and department concerned to address and fulfill” the ENSF’s demand.
The organization said in a note today that it would go ahead with its second phase of the agitation. “There was no positive response from the department except from the office of the chief secretary requesting the federation to call off its agitation as the state government is planning to address and negotiate the demands of the ENSF. The ENSF officials were invited to the official residence of the chief secretary on 12th August 2011 around 10:30 AM to discuss the demands,” the ENSF informed through its vice president Likhumse Sangtam and general secretary Changsang Soted. The organization rejected the request of the chief secretary, the ENSF said, because the demands are “non-negotiable and compromisable”.
According to the ENSF’s note, the chief secretary is said to have agreed to act as a “facilitator” and convene a consultation meeting with the chief minister of Nagaland, minister of School Education and the department “the same evening, yet the ENSF officials were not in a position to sit for consultation meeting because there was no positive response and assurances from the state government and the department to fulfill its demands.”
‘The chief secretary Nagaland also could not assure and commit anything concrete to the demands of ENSF but assured to act only as a facilitator between the ENSF and the department of School Education and state government,’ the organization stated. The ENSF said it would continue with its 3rd phase of agitations “and lot more in days ahead in any form/nature” until the “genuine demands” of the federation are “fulfilled and addressed appropriately.” All the units of the students’ organization in all the four districts and sub-divisions of Tuensang, Mon, Kiphire and Longleng are asked to reach the ENSF’s office in Tuensang by August 13 for an emergency meeting.
The organization said in a note today that it would go ahead with its second phase of the agitation. “There was no positive response from the department except from the office of the chief secretary requesting the federation to call off its agitation as the state government is planning to address and negotiate the demands of the ENSF. The ENSF officials were invited to the official residence of the chief secretary on 12th August 2011 around 10:30 AM to discuss the demands,” the ENSF informed through its vice president Likhumse Sangtam and general secretary Changsang Soted. The organization rejected the request of the chief secretary, the ENSF said, because the demands are “non-negotiable and compromisable”.
According to the ENSF’s note, the chief secretary is said to have agreed to act as a “facilitator” and convene a consultation meeting with the chief minister of Nagaland, minister of School Education and the department “the same evening, yet the ENSF officials were not in a position to sit for consultation meeting because there was no positive response and assurances from the state government and the department to fulfill its demands.”
‘The chief secretary Nagaland also could not assure and commit anything concrete to the demands of ENSF but assured to act only as a facilitator between the ENSF and the department of School Education and state government,’ the organization stated. The ENSF said it would continue with its 3rd phase of agitations “and lot more in days ahead in any form/nature” until the “genuine demands” of the federation are “fulfilled and addressed appropriately.” All the units of the students’ organization in all the four districts and sub-divisions of Tuensang, Mon, Kiphire and Longleng are asked to reach the ENSF’s office in Tuensang by August 13 for an emergency meeting.
