Mizo students tell varsity VC to leave
AIZAWL: Mizo Students Union, the second largest students’ organisation in Mizoram, today asked the Vice-Chancellor of Mizoram University to leave the state. Accusing Vice-Chancellor A N Rai of ignoring the interests of the local people in terms of job reservation,
the MSU said, ”It is better for AN Rai to leave Mizoram.” The anguish of the students organisation came with the recently floated advertisements for 177 different posts in the University in which little reservation was made for the sons of the soil.
”Of the 69 UR (unreserved posts), 40 were professor and associate professor posts in different departments where there would be virtually no eligible Mizo candidates. The remaining 29 UR posts of assistant professors and lecturers too are unlikely applicable for Mizo candidates,” MSU president C Lalrosanga said.
Whereas there would be a lot of eligible Mizo candidates in botany, zoology and environmental science departments, all the vacant posts in these departments were reserved for SC/OBC, the MSU stated adding, ”This is a clear move to allow as little room as possible for the sons of the soil in the University.” ”Of the 118 posts, only about ten posts are actually applicable for Mizo candidates,” the MSU said.
Accusing the varsity authorities of ignoring the interests of the local people as per the University Acts and Statutes, the MSU president said, ”There are ways to favour the sons of the soil in job reservation as per the law.” The MSU also demanded reconstitution of reservation committee which it said had been there during the tenure of former Vice-Chancellor A K Sharma in the University.
The MSU demanded the university authorities to rearrange the reservation and float fresh advertisements failing which the organisation would do anything to save the university in the interest of the people of Mizoram.
Source: AGENCIES