NSF demonstration for solution on PM’s visit to Kohima

Correspondent

KOHIMA, MAR 7 (NPN): Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) staged demonstrations at various locations in Kohima coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Tuesday.

Students from various institutions displayed placards at several locations of the town, including Old MLA junction, Phoolbari and NSF Martyrs’ Park.

NSF is asking the Central government to be serious and show utmost sincerity in ensuring an inclusive, honourable, early and acceptable solution to the protracted Indo-Naga political issue. Interacting with a section of media persons , NSF president Kegwayhun Tep said the federation felt that the Naga political issue has been “almost forgotten”. He said through the demonstration, NSF wanted to remind the newly- elected and not use the genuine and legitimate Naga political issue as a “mere political gambit”.

NSF said the demonstration was also a reminder to the Naga negotiators that Naga youth and student community were yearning for a lasting peace across Naga homeland and that generations that would inherit the solution would no longer tolerate division within themselves.

Tep recalled that the BJP had advocated “election for solution” in the past but lamented that five years lapsed since then, but no solution was visible.

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Myanmar’s illegal occupation into question.

According to NSCN (IM), the international community should remain committed to the right approach of promoting peace talks, assist India, Nagalim and Myanmar in the conflict, and create conditions and platforms for the three entities to resume negotiations or call for an immediate withdrawal of occupying forces from Nagalim.

Further, NSCN (I-M) also questioned that if it was a terrorist organisation, why India was holding political negotiations with it for more than two decades now and why the negotiations had taken place at the highest political levels. Referring to India’s commitment to the November 18, 2002 memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in Milan, Italy, that clearly stated and understood that NSCN/ GPRN was not a terrorist organisation, the group reasoned that if this was the case, why its members or Nagas were being held on terror funding charges.

It also asked why India signed the Framework Agreement on August 3, 2015, that recognised the Naga issue as an Indo-Naga “political conflict” and was signed as two entities.

Our accreditation, assessment transparent: NAAC clarifies

NEW DELHI, MAR 7

(PTI): National Assessment and Accreditation Council

(NAAC) clarified that its accreditation and assessment is transparent and cannot be compromised, days after its chairman resigned alleging that universities were obtaining questionable grades through unfair means.

“As per the mandate of NAAC, the entire process of accreditation and assessment is robust, transparent, ICT-driven and automated.

The system cannot be compromised because the whole process is decentralised, transparent and accessible to the stakeholders through a user-friendly portal and dashboard at all stages of the assessment and accreditation process,” NAAC said in a statement. “The processes within NAAC are continuously being improved so that assessment and accreditation of the educational institutions are done transparently and professionally,” it added. NAAC chairperson B Patwardhan had resigned on Sunday, saying he was doing so to safeguard “the sanctity of the post”, days after alleging that universities were obtaining questionable grades through unfair means.