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Kohima, April 12 : The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) today said that the Special Investigation Team’s report has not fully satisfied the people. The NSF said the federation would pressure the state government to let the Special Verification Committee (SVC)  bring out an ‘appropriate report’. Addressing a press conference here, NSF president Mutsikhoyo Yhobu hoped that the SVCs would bring out an ‘appropriate report’. In a memorandum to the chief minister on March 19,  the NSF had demanded prompt  action  for the anomalies unearthed in the education department. Yhobu said the government has asked the federation to wait for some time. “The NSF went through SIT report and other documents and  we  came to know this is  one immediate issue the federation needs to address,”  the NSF president  said.
Yhobu said anomalies were found and so the SVC was constituted by the government to verify it. The federation also demanded that some of the teachers attached to DIS/VIPs and other jobs must go back to schools and teach as their profession is meant for teaching. He said the government should take appropriate action against those teachers if they cannot sincerely perform their duties.
The government had already issued notifications regarding redeployment but the NSF said the department remains to do so yet. “Redeployment should be done,” the NSF president said. “The federation will keep on fighting tooth and nail for the cause of younger generation,” Yhobu said.
Affirming that the federation will stand by its earlier memorandum and continue to fight for justice, NSF general secretary O Wati Jamir also said the memorandum is fully in the interest of Nagas and “we will not retrieve back our memorandum.”
The NSF will not remain silent, he said.
Earlier, the NSF demanded that all those employees already tainted in the latest government scandal should be immediately terminated from service. The memorandum has also demanded immediate detachment and redeployment of all those teachers who are still attached with DIS/DEO or the directorate establishment. Punitive action against was sought by the NSF against erring officials under the education department if found, caught or involved in corruption. Calling for “necessary action without any prejudices,’ the NSF lamented that many a times the real culprits go scot-free.
The NSF also urged the chief minister to put on a check those individuals, organization, or groups intervening or obstructing proceedings of investigation. The NSF is “totally committed to work out against such interference on corruption in the largest interest of student community vis-à-vis for our society,” the apex Naga students body said.