To,
The Director
Higher & Technical Education, Kohima
Sir,
It is really sad but true to admit that the Department of Higher & Technical Education whose foremost concern is to support and promote better quality of education for the Nagas are now showing the most insensitive side of their nature to us. The worst blow that any student can experience is to be deprived of the Scholarship on which most of the students (like us) depend for covering up our educational expenses. In the first place, the scholarship for the academic year 2004-2005 has been delayed for so long. It has come to our knowledge that the technical & medical students studying outside the State have received their scholarship during the mid-summer break. Further, students in the State have also received their scholarship recently. So why is the Department giving a step-motherly treatment to a few students like us (and some others)?? Are we not on the same line with other Naga students? Can a person be treated like an “outsider” just because he/she pursues higher studies outside the State? We are extremely hurt and annoyed by the insensitive, irresponsible and bias attitude of the concerned authority towards us. How long do you expect us to wait? For most of us here in United Theological College, Bangalore we depend on this scholarship to pay the second installment of our college fees. So is the concerned authority ready to be accountable for our studies in case of problems arising for us with regard to our fees? If you become responsible for jeopardizing our study career, then it is high time for the Government to come up with an alternate department to look after the welfare of the Naga students. The indifferent attitude which the department has portrayed this time leaves us with no other option but to doubt and question the very credibility of the concerned department.
We strongly demand the authorities to give us what is duly ours without further delay.
The Naga Students,
United Theological College, Bangalore
