Student Initiative in NE

NESO submits memo to PM:

Shillong: The North East Students’ Organization (NESO) has submitted its eight-point charter of demands to the Centre seeking its intervention for the welfare of the people of the north-eastern States in Shillong on Thursday.

NESO information and publicity secretary and Khasi Students’ Union President Samuel Jyrwa submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh through Meghalaya Governor Dr SS Sidhu demanding steps to develop education in the region.

Urging the Centre of assessing the state of education in the region, the NESO has impressed upon setting up of a Special Education Commission to look into the areas pertaining to civil service courses and human resource development.

The memo also highlights the serious demographic change attributed to influx of illegal migrants from neighbouring countries which they fear would lead to militancy and fundamentalist activity in the region.

In this context, they have pointed out that the Supreme Court verdict on the IM (DT), 1983, are ultra vires to the Constitution of India.

NESO also demanded a white paper on the policy rather than a reactive approach to this issue.

Appreciating the initiative taken by the Centre on the refugee problems, the NESO upheld that the Chakma and the Hajong refugees settled in Arunachal Pradesh should be repatriated to any other places in the country from north-eastern region.

They have also demanded that the Indo-Nepal friendship treaty be repealed as it has opened a “flood gate” to lakhs of Nepali nationals to settle in the North-east.

The NESO has also asked the Union Government to accede an honour the United Nations Covenants for guarantee of human rights besides repealing impunitive legislation and draconian laws from the North-east citing the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the National Security Act, the Punjab State Security Act and the Assam Maintenance of Public Order imposed upon district councils in the region.

The students’ organization, in its memorandum, further demanded for a special commission to undertake a sustainable economic policy for the region in light of the Centre’s Look East Policy initiative.

This, they emphasized, will augment the employment and placement policy for the North-east. Among other issues burgeoning the region, the students’ organization outlined the inter-state boundary disputes. On extending of cellular service to the region, the students’ organization reserved its opinion and urged the Centre to make the whole north-eastern region a separate cellular zone with global facilities.

Source: The Sentinel

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