ABSORPTION BACKLASH: NSF bars students from participating in April 21 ‘solidarity’ demonstration

April 20, 2025 8 Views No Comment

KOHIMA, APRIL 20(MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has instructed all its federating units and subordinate bodies to stay away from a planned demonstration on April 21 in support of the regularization of 147 Assistant Professors in government colleges across Nagaland.

The directive from the NSF comes in response to a circular calling on teachers and students from government colleges across Nagaland to participate in a demonstration on April 21 to show solidarity to the recently regularized 147 Assistant Professors of the various colleges and also to acknowledge the state Cabinet decision to regularize them as a one-time dispensation.

The NSF said it had categorically and repeatedly opposed the decision that violates the very principles of transparency, fairness, and meritocracy which it upholds.

Reiterating its stance against what it terms a “one-time dispensation” to absorb the Assistant Professors without open recruitment, the NSF stated that the move undermines the aspirations of qualified job seekers across the state.

Describing the Cabinet decision as a “gross miscarriage of justice,” the NSF emphasized that the absorption bypasses due process while noting that the move disregards earlier appeals and representations made by the Federation.

In this connection, the NSF has called all the federating units and subordinate bodies of NSF to direct their members to refrain from participating or endorsing any such demonstration that seeks to justify or normalize this unjust regularization process. Participation in the demonstration would constitute a clear violation of the stand and principles of the Naga Students’ Federation and will be viewed with utmost seriousness, it cautioned.

The NSF reiterated its demand for immediate revocation of the said Cabinet decision and for all sanctioned posts to be requisitioned to the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC), thereby restoring confidence in the system and upholding the aspirations of the youth.