“I’ll create bloodshed in Nagaland.” This is what the Vice-Chancellor seems to be saying as he withdraws his resignation letter which was signed on the 28th of Feb. 2006. he assumes the students will resort to aggressive agitation and while the security forces will suppress them, Nagaland will witness bloodshed in addition to the present fratricidal factional killings.
There have been many allegations against him on various grounds beginning from his incompetence as a VC. It needs to be mentioned that when he was newly appointed to his troubled chair, the students protested against his appointment. It is also with mentioning that he was expelled from a University before he came to Nagaland to assume his present post which is beyond his capacity. Since then, he has been having troubles in the university. Freshly, with the NUTA and PGSU ready for another new form of agitation asking the VC to rewrite his resignation letter as he has failed to set up an Engineering College and Institute of Management in the University despite drawing the funds for starting it, he is too stubborn and continues with the excuse that Nagas are not qualified to handle these institutions which is a direct insult to the Naga ‘intelligentsia’.
If he says so, he is equally unqualified to be VC of this prestigious Nagaland University, a person who was expelled from a certain University before. He must remind himself that last year, when the students were agitating due to his failure to initiate appropriate actions against unqualified teachers appointed in the University, and when the security gave him protection in his office chamber, locking it from outside, the students too locked the gate of the building and held him till late evening. It is feared that it may become worse his time. If he refuses to step down, he can be thrown out of the window of the building as has happened somewhere to a certain VC.
The students are the future of tomorrow and if society really thinks about their children’s future, then they must no longer remain mere witnesses to the happenings in the University. The lessons that the students are learning in the University will be put to use in the future by them but the saddest part is that the present students are learning corruption instead of education. The VC teaches corruption.
It is time the Government and the NGOs come into tune with those who have come out with proofs regarding irregularities in the University. The VC’s tenure ends in July, but will he step down even after his tenure ends? It hangs.
K. Filip Sumi
Spokesperson, PGSU
