Shillong, Nov 15: The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of NEHUTA, NEHUNSA and NEHUSU will meet the Vice Chancellor of the University Prof PS Shukla on Thursday to discuss its nine-point charter of demands.
The indefinite strike called by the JAC entered third day disputing the functioning of the NEHU administration and academic activities.
“The JAC will meet the VC tomorrow in the conference hall,” JAC chairman Prof Lakhon Kma said on Wednesday.
“There will also be a JAC general assembly outside the VC’s office after the meeting to share the outcome of the meeting with the members and to accordingly decide the future course of action,” he added.
Prof Kma informed that the strike will continue on Thursday till further decision is taken.
The demands are immediate removal of illegally appointed technical officer/senior consultant, immediate appointment of statutory officers and university engineer, deteriorating condition of the university health centre, relieving of teaching and technical staff from ministerial duties, re-upload of NEHU Act, Statutes and Ordinance in the NEHU official website, holding of regular convocation, marking system, inclusion of elected members of NEHUSU as representative in the Academic Council and review of Educationally Backward Area Quota from Block Level to Village Level.
