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OPEN LETTER TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FROM NORTHEAST INDIAN STATES TO BRING IMMEDIATE JUSTICE FOR REIGPHAMY AWUNSHI & OTHER VICTIMS FROM THE NORTHEAST INDIA…

To: Inner and Outer constituency MP of Manipur.
CC: Home Minister; MPs of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.

Subject: Bring immediate justice to Reigphamy Awunshi and other victims from the NorthEast India.

Respected Sir/ Madam,

We the undersigned would like to bring to your attention some very serious concerns relating to recent tragic death of Reigphamy Awunshi.

We strongly believe that the circumstances that lead to the death of the beautiful daughter of Ukhrul and many insensitive and humiliating incidences following the death are a result of many attitudes and attributes that has been formed through the years.

Sir/ Madam, it is great pain to that many of her loving friends and well wishers have to fight to even register a FIR. Worse is the investigating police officer had total disregard and disrespect even for the death that we were told that we are spa working people and it was reason for such incidences of ‘death’ happens.

We wonder how in the face of such attitude which has strong humiliating and degrading attitude towards the people of NorthEast India, Reignphamy Awungshi can even have a unbiased investigation leave alone justice.

Many of us believe there are very strong evidences of homicidal signs and even possibility of sexual assault leading to the death.

Sir/ Madam, we believe one of most important factor that have lead to these ever increasing of negative attitude towards us, that even disrespect us in death is the absence of voices and solidarity of our own people.

We are deeply hurt and angry that our leaders seem to have left us and ignored us during such challenging and tragic times especially aggravated by a biased investigation and non-coverage by the many institution because of our racial origin.

We wish to request you to please exercise your full responsibility and power bestowed by the people who have elected yourself as leaders and make strong initiatives and actions to bring about justice to Reigamphy Awangshi and take punitive actions against those officials and professionals who have made skewed opinions and decision heavily affected by our racial origin.

We would like you to please take notice of the continuing coverage or wilfully undercoveraged in the national media of many such tragic incidences involving people from our north eastern region, which we believe is because of racial prejudice.

We would like to summarise to please share your words of condolences and help Awungshi and help prevent the fate that poor Awungshi have to experience even in death.

We urge to acknowledge the presence of the dangerous racial stereotyping and prejudice that have not only dehumanise and degraded the life of many but also cause many physical and emotional trauma and even have lead to death .

We would be very grateful to you if you Sir/ Madam could exercise your responsibility and power and held those heinous people accountable and herald a new glorious moment in the history of humanity of Manipur and in NorthEast India in general.

Members of Parliament should make significant steps to bring immediate justice to many victims like Reingamphy awungshi and seriously deal with prejudice that have allowed these crimes to happened and then become a huge obstacles towards justice including even toward registering a FIR and manipulation of forensic study.

Thanking you,

A Justice4Richard Initiative
(http://change.org/reingamphi)

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Request for sensitization of North East students problem, to SHOs of police stations & staff of Delhi Police

Robin HIbu, IPS

Joint Commissioner of Police/
Chief Co-ordinator for North East/Delhi Police

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PRESS STATEMENT

8th June, 2013

 

In the Presidential Council meeting held on the 3^rd June, 2013 the matter of relentless communal onslaught of the Government of Manipur(GoM) and communal forces of Imphal valley upon the Nagas and tribals was tabled for discussion. After thorough deliberation it was decided to observe a 48 hours total bandh in Naga areas w.e.f the midnight of 16^th June, 2013 and till midnight of 18^th June, 2013 to protest against the unabated communal actions and policies of the GoM and the communal forces in Imphal valley and to urge the Government of India to intervene immediately with an alternative arrangement.

 

The above decision was arrived at after considering the manner of response of the GoM and communal forces on many issues which emerged even after the direct attack on Christians and Tribals in Imphal valley in the wake of the reported assault on actress Momoko, the Napetpali assault and molestation and the murder of 2 Kongkan Tangkhul villagers – all during the Christmas season of December, 2013. The communal actions continues unabated in different forms, amongst which the following incidents were discussed in detail –

 

1. 36 houses of Silent Tangkhul village were burnt down by neighbouring Saijang Meitei and their supporters on 3^rd May, 2013 and properties worth crores of rupees was reduced to cinders and hundreds of villagers rendered homeless. The Cabinet of the GoM then steps in and imposes 144 CRPC in the area where the burnt houses once stood by declaring the same as disputed area, thereby endorsing the terror crime of burning of houses and clearly favouring Saijang Meitei. Instead of booking the vandals and arsonists, the GoM acts against the law of the land and adopts a communal position.

 

2. The GoM offers a communal response and refuses to carry out its bounden duty of securing the safe return of Ms. Alice Kamei, a  14 year old tribal school girl who has been in the custody of the Revolutionary Peoples Front/Peoples Liberation Army(RPF/PLA) since 10th March, 2013 stating that the minor Ms Alice has joined the RPF on her own volition. Communal GoM absolves a militant group of its crime of abduction/ensnaring a minor away from the care of her parents and guardians.

 

3. The eviction of 28 houses in Naga River Colony by the GoM on the 20th May, 2013 left more than 100 school going children homeless and 3 churches mowed down. The eviction of the bona fide residents of Naga River Colony was carried on the pretext of construction of a 5 star hotel and systematically carried out by first propagating that the “patta” of the area were faulty and then issuing back dated eviction orders which did not allow the resident to salvage whatever is possible from their houses. Even standing court ruling of maintaining status quo was not honoured. At daybreak of 20^th May, 2013, Naga River colony was wiped out of the face of the earth epitomising the determined design of the Communal GoM to disown tribals and Christian of their legitimate rights.

 

4. Surrenderees Cadres of the KYKL(MDF) have been lodged by the GoM with the 20^th Assam Rifles at Chandel. Instead of bringing development to the hills, the GoM using the tribal areas as dumping ground for surrendered militant groups from the Imphal valley insulting the owners of the land. Organised protest has not resulted in any corrective measures from the GoM.
5. The officer-in-Charge of Sugnu Police Station has summoned the Chiefs of 12 tribal villages located in the foothills of Chandel district to come with land patta of their respective villages. The summons are obviously with a view to replicate what has been done in Naga River Colony so that by harassing the villagers and detecting some non-existent irregularity the village can be evicted by the GoM.

 

6. Maipethel Dam, under a mega 715.81 crore project has been sanctioned for construction in Chadong village, Ukhrul District without the free prior and informed consent of the tribal people who are to be dislodged from their homes and lands by the project. The affected villagers on protest were able to extract an understanding with the GoM to institute an Expert Review Committee so that proper environment impact assessments is duly undertaken and appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement package worked out before resumption of the project. But GoM dishonoured this understanding, violated all international norms and split up the villagers by engineering infighting. GoM then sent in the Manipur IRB to the project area to secure forcible completion of the project and placed the village Chadong area virtually under siege, dislocating the day to day life of the villagers. Fictitious list of names for payment of compensation was prepared by the GoM, insulting the genuine affected villagers and fomenting acrimony within the villagers.

 

The project is intended to feed Imphal valley with drinking water and uninterrupted power supply. But what about the affected tribal villagers, the targeted victims of the project ? Why were established norms and procedures not followed. Bulldozing over the villagers with force, luring away some sections of the victims with irregular compensations and engineering conflict within the villagers typifies the GoM’s communal approach in its agenda for ensuring power & water supply to Imphal valley with the least respect for the tribal landowners and their due rights.

 

7. On 14^th April, 2013 fifteen tribal students staying on rent in the house of one Manitombi Devi in Soibam Leikai, Khanglabung, Imphal were attacked by locals of Khanglabung Leirak. They were assaulted and their personal belongings vandalised. On 15^th April, 2013 when community student leaders visited the house for enquiry they were also attacked with catapults. The locals of Khanglabung reportedly maintained on ISTV that the incident took place due to dispute between the Landlord and the local populace. No action has been taken by the GoM and tribals continue to be soft target of the communal forces in Imphal valley where all important facilities such as education and health are centred.

 

8. In a bid to grab tribal lands attempt are being made to drag in tribal villages such as Khangshim, Kanemram, Nungaourok & Koraopokpi under Machi Block Chandel into Kakching block under Thoubal valley district. Signboards of the tribal villages have been defaced and provocative and derogatory insults are being hurled on the tribals unceasingly.

 

9. The political tour in Naga areas carried out in April-May, 2013 to Chandel, Ukhrul, Tamenglong and Senapati district has confirmed our position that development planning of the GoM are itself communal and that the crores and crores of rupees sanctioned for development project in the hills have been done only to siphon off funds through contract works without any sincere intention to develop the tribal areas.

 

Nagas have consistently maintained that we are not communal. But the Nagas and tribals cannot have their identity recognised; have their identity, land and way of life protected; live with dignity and honour  under the Communal Government of Manipur and with the communal forces in Imphal valley.The sharp social divide on communal lines in the present State of Manipur engendered by the communal action and policies of the GoM and the communal forces in Imphal valley, of which few of the recent instances have been highlighted above, cries out for immediate intervention of the Government of India with an alternative arrangement outside the Government of Manipur.

 

The 48 hours total bandh will cover the railway construction works. Medical services, fire-brigade, media, power and telecommunication departments will be exempted from the purview of the total bandh.

 

We solicit the cooperation and goodwill of the general public towards making the protest programme peaceful and violence free. Anybody violating the total bandh would be doing so at their own risk.

 

 

Publicity Wing

United Naga Council

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Having turned a deaf ear to the cries of the long pending legitimate demands of the All Tribal Students ’Manipur (ATSUM) by the Government of Manipur, the Union is compelled to launch an intense agitation for 38 hours w.e.f. 5.am of June 3, 2013 to 7.pm of 4th June 2013 followed by a sustained agitation for 38 days under the code name (ROTO) Reckoning of the others in protest against the indifferent attitude of the GoM.

Keeping in mind the unstable social milieu on communal line and suppression of inherent Rights of the Tribal, the Union has been steadfastly spearheading tribal movement as a measure to bring peace, harmony, progress and inclusive development of all communities living in the state. We vehemently detest the culture of bandh, blockade of Highways and other violence means of agitation as it is an infliction to us all. As however, we are compelled to communicate in a dialect that could be heard by those at the helms of affairs. With no response from the Govt. With the above series of agitations The ATSUM add up the actions to stop the construction work of NF Railway construction indefinitely, that is taken up between Tupul- Jiribam. From the midnight of 7th June 2013 until and unless the Manipur State Govt. concede to the genuine demands of ATSUM.

The constructions work of NF-Raiways from Tupul- Jiribam is completely stop now.

CHARTER OF DEMANDS:
1. Education:
(a) Appointment of adequate teaching and non-teaching staff in the Hill areas.
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
(b) Development of Infrastructures to School in the Hill areas.
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
(c) Setting up of B.ED centres in the Hills.
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
(d) IGNTU-Issues
(Memo Submitted on 27th No.2012)
2. Health:
(a) To make all PHSC, PHC, CHC and DHC functional.
(b) Proper Equipments with required specialist Doctors and Nurses in all the
District Hospitals of the Hill.
(c) Reservation of ST Quota for different grades of posts in JNIMS.
(Memo submitted on 23rd April, 2013).
3. Separate State Commission for ST Under article 338- A of the Indian Constitution.
The National commission for Scheduled tribes which came into force on19th February, 2004 has failed to provide adequate services to the State of Manipur as it is based on a distant centre in Shillong. Hence, the ST of Manipur deserves to have a separate commission for ST in Manipur under Article 338-A of the Indian Constitution to usher in all round development.
4. Adherence to ST reservation norms as per the latest roster
(a). To strictly maintain the reservation Norms of ST.
(b). for encouraging equitable development through Grand in Aid/ Special Package
for the Hill Areas of Manipur.
(c). Rectification of the order no. 3/8/2008-Jr, (MCS) DP Dated 7th Dec’2012.
(d). Filling of backlog posts in every Department by a special recruitment drive for ST.

5. Effective Governance of the hills.
To implement proper functioning of the Hill Area Committee and requiring the Governor of Manipur to discharge his special responsibilities under Article 371-C of the constitution of India.

6. Unbiased promotion in Government services i.e. both centres and
State services. (IAS/MCS/IPS/MPS/Jr. MCS & in all other grades.
(Memo Submitted on 27th Nov. 2012.)
(Memo submitted to CM Manipur on 18/04/2013),
(And Ultimatum on 10th Jan 2013).

7. Tribal rights on Land and Natural Resources.
* Protection of the Rights of the Indigenous Tribal peoples over the Land, Forest and * Management of Natural resources in the Hill Areas of Manipur.

8. Protest against deletion of Additional English in lieu of MIL for un-recognised Tribes in the new scheme of study in class-IX from the Academic
session 2014-2015 and in class –X the next year under BOSEM.

9. Appointment of Tribal Women as Chairperson of Manipur Women Commission.

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We from NE Brothers Ent Pvt Ltd in collaboration with Idaa, Hyderabad are providing FREE COMPUTER TRAINING COURSES for unemployed youth in Imphal area, should have S.S.C. passed and above higher education are eligible, age limit is 14 years above, the course duration would be 30 days to 40 days, the next batch commencing from June 20th 2013.

Offered Courses:

1. Computer Fundamentals, MS-Office and Internet

2. 2D pre-production Animator

3. 3D- Animation Production

4. 3D- Visualization in Architecture

The successful candidates will be awarded with NCVT certificate, New Delhi. Interested candidates should contact the Below Address :

NE Bros, 3rd Floors, NE brothers building,

Opposite: Shyamashakhi High School Moirangkhom bazaar Imphal west,

MANIPUR, Phone no: 0385-2454076 / 91-9191709368

All the candidates should carry 4 photographs, with Xerox copy’s of education certificates, Address proof & Id Proof.

Thanking you,

Yours Faithfully

Jafri

(Institute In charge)

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THE SHILLONG MANIPURI STUDENTS’ UNION
Regd.No.E-16 (RS) 30/2001/149 0f 2002
H.Q. Manipur House, Red Land, Laitumkhrah, Shillong-03

Phone: +91-8414028584
E-mail: infosmsu@gmail.com
Website: www.smsu.org.in

Ref. – in/smsu/06/13 Date: 03/06/13

To
The Editor,
Kanglaonline.com
Imphal, Manipur
Press Release
(Please Immediately Release)

The Shillong Manipuri Students’ Union (SMSU) is demanding the Manipur government to immediately implement the inner-line permit (ILP) system in Manipur. Otherwise SMSU will go on the protest path.

Today, 3rd of June 2013, the Union has organized a group discussion regarding the ILP system in Manipur and other states in North East. Various organizational leaders are associated in the discussion at Manipur House, Red Land, Laitumukhrah, Shillong.

On the 4th of May 2013 there will be a meeting with Khasi Student’s Union (KSU) and Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), from Manipur.

Participant Leaders are:

1. Kh. Meiraba Angom (President of SMSU)
2. Y.P Singh (Vice President of SMSU)
3. Ch. Thangamba (Advisor of SMSU)
4. H. Hemo (Advisor of SMSU)
5. W. Romesh (Sports Secy.)
6. Sapamcha Jadumani ( Convenor of JCILPS, from Manipur)
7. Mutum Churamani (Co-Convenor of JCILPS, from Manipur)
8. Khomdram Ratan (Co-Convenor of JCILPS, from Manipur)
9. Joy Chingakham (Co-Convenor of JCILPS, from Manipur)
10. Somendro Thokchom (Co-Convenor of JCILPS, from Manipur)
11. M.I. Singh (President of Meetei Community Development Society Shillong)
12. Sougrakpam Tiken ( General Secretary of The Shillong Meetei Tenbang Lup)
13. Akoijam Jogendro (Former Advisor of SMSU) etc.

Thanks You

President,
Kh. Meiraba Angom
Shillong Manipuri Student’ Union (SMSU)
Ph. +91-8414028584
Shillong – 793003

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NORTH-EAST FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY

Email id: nefis.delhi@gmail.com Contact phone number: 7838983871
Correspondence address: 7/24 Double Story Vijay Nagar, Delhi-110007

1.6.2013
PRESS RELEASE
Today a number of progressive and democratic organizations including NEFIS, JNUSU, MSAD, KYS CSW, TKLD etc held a protest demonstration outside the Malviya Nagar Police station demanding that an FIR be lodged regarding the death of Miss Reingamphi Awungshi and proper investigation be initiated. Only after a day-long protest demonstration did police agree to start the standard procedures and also agreed to transfer this case to the Crime Branch. NEFIS finds it extremely contemptible that it requires a protest demonstration for police to start standard procedures. This reflects the careless and insensitive attitude of Delhi Police. We resolve to follow the proceedings of this case closely and protest again if we feel that the police is not doing its job properly. NEFIS also calls upon all progressive and democratic forces to initiate a campaign to assure the safety of women, particularly single students and working women who stay alone.

Chinglen Khumukcham
Thanglunmang Khongsai

NEFIS (North-East Forum for International Solidarity)

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PRESS RELEASE
Dated Tahamzam, 25th May, 2013

The third leg of the United Naga Council(UNC) political tour in Naga areas was undertaken in Irianglong(Tamenglong) District in association with the Zeliangrong Baudi, Manipur and the frontal organisations of the region from the 23th to 25th May, 2013. The political tour was carried out mainly with a view to interact with the people and to study the socio-economic conditions of the Nagas which is weakening by the day and to verify the tall claims made by the Government of Manipur on schemes/projects placed in the tripartite talk as development initiatives taken up by them in tribal areas.

The touring team witnessed the intensive work for construction of tunnels for the trans Asian Railway line, deploying man and machine on scales never seen before and experienced at the same the deplorable road condition from Awangkhul to Tamenglong district headquarter, a distance of about only 65 kms which take more than 3 hours to cover on four wheelers. The plight of the people of the district whose main route of communication is a district road not worth the name continues to be ignored and isolates them further beyond distance.

The tour programme concluded with a joint meeting with formers Presidents and Executives of the Zeliangrong Baudi and United Naga Council, Convenor of the Tamenglong District, Convenor and colleagues of the Co-ordination Committee Tamenglong for Alternative Arrangement, Representative of the Zeliangrong Youth Front, Zeliangrong Students’ Union Manipur, Member of the Peace Committee, Women leaders, retired bureaucrats and a host of elders, intellectuals and public leaders.

The contours of the tripartite talk process of the Government of Manipur, Government of India and the UNC on the demand for an alternative arrangement outside the Government of Manipur was highlighted in the joint meeting which also emphasised on the need to be organised and be in continued preparedness for taking forward the people’s movement to its logical conclusion.

The President, United Naga Council also gave a call to end of factional violence and internal divisions and the need to join hands for building up the society in view of the impending settlement of the Indo-Naga issue and to effectively engage with the emerging challenges of the times.

The entire tour programme was hosted by the Zeliangrong Baudi, Manipur.

Publicity Wing
United Naga Council

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EUROPEAN MANIPURI ASSOCIATION

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY:
SOMORENDRO KHAGEMBAM
4/5 Rudolstadter Weg
Blankenhagen
Germany- 33330

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ema_committee@yahoogroups.com

http://www.ema-europe.org

Contact number: 00353879620682/00491743910913

Chief Minister, O Ibobi Singh, applauds European Manipuri Association’s efforts to provide a common platform for Manipuri Diasporas living in Europe.

The Chief Minister of Manipur, Okram Ibobi Singh extended warm greetings and best wishes to the European Manipur Association (EMA) which is underway once again to hold a 2 days busy annual convention cum social gathering of European Manipuri Diasporas and their friends, starting from 25th to 26th of May at Worchester, near Birmingham, UK.

The Chief Minister in his message said, “Despite the limitations and tininess of our State we are proud that the presence of Manipuri Diasporas are ever widening across the globe.

An Annual gathering for them is very significant as it gives them a chance to know each other, bring them together to share and exchange ideas and views , and above all to create an atmosphere of ‘Home Away from Home.”

On the invitation extended to his son, Surjakumar Okram, for the event, on a separate note to the Chairperson of EMA, the Chief Minister regretting his son’s unavailability to attend the event owing to prior commitment for a tour to Myanmar he further shared , “ I look forward that the said gathering will be an ideal forum for the Manipuri living , serving and studying abroad to get to know and help each other, and put their heads together to bring about a better Manipur Society in the years to come.”

Every year in summer EMA organises an annual convention cum social gathering providing a platform to Manipuri Diasporas and their friends to uphold our culture and tradition; and to provide an atmosphere of ‘home away from home’.

Annual event of EMA is a significant event for the organisation and its members apart from the social in nature gathering but also to discuss many key issues of EMA and its members with the back ground of Manipur as the origin of our members.

This year, the event is being organised at: HIGHBALL CENTRE, HANLEY SWAN, MALVERN, WORCHESTER, WR8 0DX, NEAR BIRMINGHAM.

The Executive committee welcomes all the Manipuri Diasporas in Europe and their friends to attend this event irrespective of their advance booking or not.

SOMORENDRO KHANGEMBAM
Gen Secy, EMA

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PRESS STATEMENT
Dated Tahamzam, 20th May, 2013

The attack on Silent Tangkhul Naga village by a large number of well armed people from the neighbouring Meitei Saijang village on 3rd May, 2013 and burning down of 36 houses has been condemned by the Tribal organisations including the United Naga Council. This sentiment was also echoed by the editorials of valley based dailies. We maintain that the act of burning down of houses by holding up the villagers with threat of use of arms and weapons is an act of terrorism. The culprits and perpetrators who have claimed the act and justified it on the ground of dispute over ownership of land on which the burnt houses stood must be booked under the law of the land.

After the ghastly episode, to add salt to injury, the Cabinet of the Manipur Government has issued an order whereby entry has been prohibited into the now declared disputed area in Silent village and consequently 144 CRPC has been imposed in the area on which the burnt houses stood. This is a communal decision and endorses the terror crime of burning of houses and one-sidedly in favour of the Saijang Meitei. This is against the law of the land.

The UNC endorses the decision of the Aze Longphang, the apex organisation of Southern Tangkhul villages taken in its emergency General Body meeting on 17th May, 2013 that any encroachment on Silent foothills will be responded upon suitably. The politics of encroachment by declaring part of Silent village as disputed land has been adopted with a communal agenda. There cannot be any compromise on our rightful ownership of our land, be it in Silent foothills or elsewhere. All Nagas and tribals must be ever alert and vigilant against the sinister designs of communal forces who are out to grab our land through fraud or force.

Publicity Wing
United Naga Council

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PRESS RELEASE

Delhi University has announced the dates for undergraduate admissions for the academic session 2013-2014. It will commence on the 5th June and will continue till 19th June 2013. Unlike last year, there will be common registration for all categories of students. The college will announce their cut offs for every course and category (Gen/ST/SC/OBC/PH).

The candidates who wish to consider for admission for various undergraduate courses in different colleges of the University, for which there is no entrance exam, are required to register either online at www.du.ac.in or register offline by completing pre-admission form (OMR) available and to be submitted at the admission information centres in Delhi.

There will be no registration/pre-admission form at the college level (online/offline). For sports/ECA and Hostel accommodation forms/applications are to be collected and submitted in the concern college. For admission to St. Stephen College and Jesus & Mary College, aspirants should contact the concerned college.

The University offers the following degrees for each undergraduate programmes:
1. Bachelor with honours/B.tech (4 academic years).
2. Bachelor (3 academic years).
3. Diploma (2 academic years)

The number of centres/colleges providing the admission forms has been increased from 4 to 18 this year. While filling up the pre registration form the student will no longer have to select the colleges, they will just have to select the courses they are interested in and when the colleges declared the first cut-off list, they can walk into any college and claim admission if they meet the college cut-off percentage,

The Naga Students’ Union, Delhi’s admission committee members will be available at the Faculty of Arts (North Campus) and Deans Students’ Welfare office (south Campus) to assist Naga students and others in filling up their forms and other related difficulties. It is advisable for students to submit their forms at the above mention centres for clarity and better co-ordination.

For further information and queries, the concern parents/candidates may contact the NSUD admission committee member for 2013-2014.
1. Chairman – Joram Maivio +919873094566
2. Member – I.D. Gil +919953049802
3. Member – Kavito Sheqi +919716403378
4. Member – Lhousino Sale +919654801490
5. Member – Merithung Odyuo +917835880980
6. Member – Pamreishang Kashung +918447397548
7. Member – Sayine Osah +919582164793

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NORTH-EAST FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY

Email id: nefis.delhi@gmail.com Contact phone number: 7838983871
Correspondence address: 7/24 Double Story Vijay Nagar, Delhi-110007

17.05.2013
PRESS RELEASE
In the wake of the proposed reforms in Delhi University North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) had launched a campaign to protest against the forceful imposition of Hindi on the students from the north-east. After a series of protests culminating in a massive demonstration outside the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD), the University administration seemed to buckle to pressure and gave us in writing that Hindi would not be made compulsory for those students from the north-east who are not comfortable with it. However, to our shock, the syllabus that was passes and finalized by the University last week has no mention of the exemption for the north-east students!

As the present four year ‘reforms’ came under severe criticism from several quarters, we too analyzed it closely and reached the conclusion that such changes, as are going to be introduced from next year are harmful to the interests of the students from the north-east in multifarious ways:

1. It has come to our notice that the new course structure has a provision for multiple exit points meaning that students can exit out of the 4 year long bachelor’s course at multiple stages. A student who drops out after the 2nd year would be given a Diploma degree, a third year drop-out Baccalaureate degree and the students who complete all four years of education would be given Baccalaureate with Honours/B.tech. degree in their respective subjects. In our opinion these provisions would prove extremely harmful to the interests of the students from the north-east, the majority of which belong to the ST and OBC categories. The system of multiple exit points would sabotage the reservations granted to ST and OBC students in the higher education. Because the students belonging to the above categories belong to the weaker, vulnerable and marginalized sections they are most likely to be forced to drop-out/flunk mid-way through the Honours course. This means that though admissions would be granted through reservation at the beginning of the Honours course, at the end of three years far fewer students from the reserved category would still remain in the course. In effect, this step would translate into shrinking of reservations for the full Honours.

2. The system of multiple exit points might seem like a flexible step to some, in favour of those students who are forced to drop out due to financial or other constraints. It is being argued that let the students who drop out have some degree at least instead of the present system in which students either get a full Honours degree or nothing at all. But we the students from the north-east who travel so far to study at Delhi University strongly disagree with this line of reasoning. Most of us live under precarious financial conditions and we are the ones who are most likely to be forced to drop out. For very long, through protests and memorandums we have been demanding the government of India to take adequate steps to ensure that students from the north-east are not forced to drop out for want of financial support but no steps whatsoever were taken to address our concerns. Now, finally when these misguided ‘reforms’ are taking place, the University, instead of addressing the root cause of dropping-out of students, which is mainly financial constraints, is systematizing the system of dropping out ! The state cannot shirk its responsibility of ensuring universal access to education, particularly to the students from the north-east who already suffer from a lag. However in the present case, the government seems to be facilitating dropping-out of the students.

3. We oppose the four year course for bachelor’s degree because it adds an additional year to the degree that could be attained earlier in three years without adding anything substantial in the curriculum. This means an extra year of financial burden which would hit the students from the north-east the most. We already suffer due to shooting room rents, inflating food costs, addition of one extra year for the honours course would force many of us to drop out mid-way.

4. Post Independence our education system has been developed by the Indian State in an uneven manner resulting in the fact that today we have a highly graded University system. There exist numerous mediocre –to- poor universities and a handful of elite universities. As a result every year students from the north-east are forced to migrate en masse to one of the bigger cities of India to pursue quality education at the elite Universities resulting in the wastage of hundreds of millions of their parents’ hard earned money. We have been demanding a thorough overhaul of the University system to lessen the gap between mediocre regional and metropolitan elite Universities so that the compulsion to migrate for quality education may end. For very long this drawback in our university system was silently ignored and the thought of reform did not cross the minds of our ruling elite, but now, when finally ‘reforms’ are being carried out, we are alarmed to see that its objective seems to be to further worsen the gap between the quality of education at the regional and elite universities. Such a step would completely undermine the limited credibility of the local universities and further induce students to migrate.

We are not averse to change, in fact for years the students from the north-east have been demanding changes in the Indian University system to ensure that the students from the north-east are able to avail of more opportunities. Accept for some token measures no significant steps were taken to address our concerns by the Indian State. Now finally when the ‘reforms’ have begun in the Delhi University, we have observed that its purpose is not to ameliorate our condition, far from it, its orientation is such that it will make our plight of the worse. Educational reforms and well being are non-negotiable because this is the only channel through which we can enter the modern job market. At a time when our traditional occupations are fast dwindling due to the appropriation of our lands and resources for corporate interests, entry into the modern economy is the only way we can escape pauperization. However such reforms as the present one threaten to make our entry into the university system extremely difficult and force us to oppose. Today we submitted a memorandum to the prime minister’s office urging upon his office to scrap the present set of reforms and take adequate steps to initiate new reforms from the perspective of the marginalized sections like the students from the north-east, failing which we would be forced to adopt the course of democratic agitation.

Yours sincerely,

Chinglen Khumukcham
Thanglunmang Khongsai

NEFIS (North-East Forum for International Solidarity)

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NORTH-EAST FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY – Memorandum submitted to the Prime Minister demanding him to intervene and take adequate steps to address our concern.

Email id: nefis.delhi@gmail.com Contact phone number: 7838983871
Correspondence address:7/24 Double Story Vijay Nagar, Delhi-110007

To, Date: 17.5.2013
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
The Prime Minister
Prime Minister Office,
South Block,
New Delhi.
Memorandum
Subject- Harmful impact of Delhi University’s new four year course on the students from the North-East

Respected Sir,
We are submitting this memorandum to register our deeply felt sense of resentment against the new course structure that is to be introduced by Delhi University next academic year onward. Our observation is that the new course structure is designed in a manner that would bring harm to the interests of the students from the ‘north-east in multiple ways. We are not averse to the idea of reforms but in our opinion the objective of reforms should be to ameliorate the conditions of the marginal sections of the society and never vice-versa. Earlier NEFIS had initiated a campaign against the compulsory imposition of Hindi on the students from the ‘north-east’ within the new course structure. As a part of this campaign we submitted memorandums and organized several protest demonstrations, culminating in the protest demonstration at the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) on 5.4.2013. The ministry had given us its assurance that not just the language clause but any other aspect of the proposed set of reforms that goes against the interests of the students from the ‘north-east’ would be scrapped. Following this the University administration had given a written assurance that Hindi would not be imposed, however to our shock, we noticed that in the new syllabus passed and finalized by the University last week, Hindi is still compulsory as a foundation course! Meanwhile, as the reforms were being critiqued from several quarters, we too analysed them and we have reached the conclusion that these entire set of reforms go against the interests of the students from the north-east in multifarious ways. Below we have listed in a schematic manner our objections to the current set of “reforms” being introduced in Delhi University.

1. It has come to our notice that the new course structure has a provision for multiple exit points meaning that students can exit out of the 4 year long bachelor’s course at multiple stages. A student who drops out after the 2nd year would be given a Diploma degree, a third year drop-out Baccalaureate degree and the students who complete all four years of education would be given Baccalaureate with Honours/B.tech. degree in their respective subjects. In our opinion these provisions would prove extremely harmful to the interests of the students from the north-east, the majority of which belong to the SC/ST and OBC categories. The system of multiple exit points would sabotage the reservations granted to SC/ST and OBC students in the higher education. Because the students belonging to the above categories belong to the weaker, vulnerable and marginalized sections they are most likely to be forced to drop-out/flunk mid-way through the Honours course. This means that though admissions would be granted through reservation at the beginning of the Honours course, at the end of three years far fewer students from the reserved category would still remain in the course. In effect, this step would translate into shrinking of reservations for the full Honours.

2. The system of multiple exit points might seem like a flexible step to some, in favour of those students who are forced to drop out due to financial or other constraints. It is being argued that let the students who drop out have some degree at least instead of the present system in which students either get a full Honours degree or nothing at all. But we the students from the north-east who travel so far to study at Delhi University strongly disagree with this line of reasoning. Most of us live under precarious financial conditions and we are the ones who are most likely to be forced to drop out. For very long, through protests and memorandums we have been demanding the government of India to take adequate steps to ensure that students from the north-east are not forced to drop out for want of financial support but no steps whatsoever were taken to address our concerns. Now, finally when these misguided ‘reforms’ are taking place, the University, instead of addressing the root cause of dropping-out of students, which is mainly financial constraints, is systematizing the system of dropping out ! The state cannot shirk its responsibility of ensuring universal access to education, particularly to the students from the north-east who already suffer from a lag. However in the present case, the government seems to be facilitating dropping-out of the students.

3. We oppose the four year course for bachelor’s degree because it adds an additional year to the degree that could be attained earlier in three years without adding anything substantial in the curriculum. This means an extra year of financial burden which would hit the students from the north-east the most. We already suffer due to shooting room rents, inflating food costs, addition of one extra year for the honours course would force many of us to drop out mid-way..

4. We have also been demanding that special attention be paid by the University to the language problems faced by students coming from the north-east. Instead of paying heed to our needs the university has made a dastardly attempt to impose Hindi and MILs upon the students from the ‘north-east’ despite our protests.

5. Post Independence our education system has been developed by the Indian State in an uneven manner resulting in the fact that today we have a highly graded University system. There exist numerous mediocre –to- poor universities and a handful of elite universities. As a result every year students from the north-east are forced to migrate en masse to one of the bigger cities of India to pursue quality education at the elite Universities resulting in the wastage of hundreds of millions of their parents’ hard earned money. We have been demanding a thorough overhaul of the University system to lessen the gap between mediocre regional and metropolitan elite Universities so that the compulsion to migrate for quality education may end. For very long this drawback in our university system was silently ignored and the thought of reform did not cross the minds of our ruling elite, but now, when finally ‘reforms’ are being carried out, we are alarmed to see that its objective seems to be to further worsen the gap between the quality of education at the regional and elite universities. Such a step would completely undermine the limited credibility of the local universities and further induce students to migrate.

We are not averse to change, in fact for years the students from the north-east have been demanding changes in the Indian University system to ensure that the students from the north-east are able to avail of more opportunities. Accept for some token measures no significant steps were taken to address our concerns by the Indian State. Now finally when the ‘reforms’ have begun in the Delhi University, we have observed that its purpose is not to ameliorate our condition, far from it, its orientation is such that it will make our plight of the worse. Educational reforms and well being are non-negotiable because this is the only channel through which we can enter the modern job market. At a time when our traditional occupations are fast dwindling due to the appropriation of our lands and resources for corporate interests, entry into the modern economy is the only way we can escape pauperization. However such reforms as the present one threaten to make our entry into the university system extremely difficult and force us to oppose. Though this memorandum we urge upon your office to scrap the present set of reforms and take adequate steps to initiate new reforms from the perspective of the marginalized sections of the society like the students from the north-east, failing which we would be forced to adopt the course of democratic agitation.

Yours sincerely,

Chinglen Khumukcham
Thanglunmang Khongsai

NEFIS (North-East Forum for International Solidarity)

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