Angami, Ao and
Lotha students break silence after years
Three major tribal student apexes, the Angami Students’
Union, the Ao Students’ Union, and the Lotha Students’ Union have demanded from
the Nagaland chief minister a review of the reservation quota for the backward
tribes.
The students’ organizations finally broke silence on
Monday after years with a joint statement on the controversial quota. The three
organizations have assured to ‘come out with various accumulated grievances.’
The chief minister is reminded by the groups that the
reservation quota holds ‘no meaning’ as it is ‘higher’ than the general
category, besides not forgetting that fact that the subject fields—medicine and
the medical profession—are not simple matters.
The statement was addressed to the chief minister of Nagaland.
The organizations said to have noted the ‘imbroglio with
regard to the NSEE-II’ selection for MBBS and BDS candidates for the 2016-2017 session.
“...ith best intentions and bearing in mind the welfare
of our students whose career and future are placed at stake, we would like to
register our dissent on the recent MBBS & BDS issue which has been delayed
so far affecting the selected students,” the statement read.
“...we also hold the serious view that reservation policy
ought to be reviewed and re-examined, as it holds no meaning when BT
reservation share is actually higher than that of the general category, as in
this case has amply displayed.”
The organization also expressed that the “latest declared
result must stand and necessary proceedings be initiated at the earliest so that
the students’ careers are not hampered.”
“...we hold the opinion that to provide reservation
superseding merit would itself defy logic and the very purpose of medical
profession itself. It is our expressed desire that reservation within
reservation in professional and technical examinations requires urgent
redressal (sic),” the statement said.
This reservation and quota policy if not reviewed, the
organizations stated, “Will murder professionalism and it is of a dangerous
trend especially in the field of medical science and many other technical
subject matter as there are irrefutable factors which can’t be dealt as a mere
clerical responsibility.”
The three organizations assured that they “intend to
openly come out with various accumulated grievances over the years by our
unions in the near future.”
They hoped that “good sense and wisdom shall prevail, so
that the issue is not blown out of proportion.”
The joint statement was appended by the respective
president of the Angami Students’ Union, Ao Students’ Conference and the Lotha
Students’ Union.
(Al Ngullie, August 29, 2016; Eastern Mirror)
(Al Ngullie, August 29, 2016; Eastern Mirror)
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