The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of teachers, non-teaching staff and students from North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), has agreed to meet Vice-Chancellor Prof PS Shukla to discuss the former’s nine-point charter of demands.
The JAC has been on strike since November 13, action that has disrupted the functioning of the NEHU administration and academic activities.
“The JAC will meet the VC tomorrow in the conference hall,” JAC chairman Prof Lakhon Kma informed today. “There will also be a JAC general assembly outside the VC’s office after the meeting to share the outcome of the meeting with the members and to accordingly decide the future course of action.”
However, the strike will continue tomorrow and ending it will depend on a further decision by the JAC.
The nine demands relate to immediate removal of a technical officer/senior consultant, immediate appointment of statutory officers and university engineer, deteriorating condition of the university health centre, relieving of teaching and technical staffs from ministerial duties, upload of NEHU act, statutes and ordinance on the NEHU website, holding of regular convocation, marking system, inclusion of elected members of NEHUSU as representatives in the Academic Council and review of educationally backward area quota from block to village level.
