SHILLONG: The newly elected members of the NEHU Students’ Union (NEHUSU) are focusing on bringing about an overall change in the system at the university by “cleaning up the clutter left behind by corrupt practices”.
NEHUSU president Napoleon S. Mawphlang, while addressing a press conference on Wednesday, said the new team would infuse fresh ideas and change the way the union worked earlier that had made development and academics progress sluggish.
“There are many serious issues that need to be dealt with, starting with poor infrastructure, deplorable roads, vacant posts and increase in fee structure,” he added.
Echoing him, general secretary Samborwell Kharjana said NEHUSU is all out against corruption. “We need transparency in NEHUSU, so we have decided to come up with a quarterly audit of the union’s financial transactions and we will constitute a financial committee for this.”
Terming the academic life at NEHU as appalling, he said, “As a team we are ready to give our affirmation that there will be a change.”
Lamenting that NEHU was ranked 15th as per the National Institute Ranking Framework, India Ranking 2016 for engineering, management, pharmacy universities, Mawphlang said, “The quality of education at NEHU is poor and we need teachers. The facility at the university needs to be upgraded.”
“We want the University to be upgraded to achieve its full potential and to be at par with other universities nationally and internationally,” he added.
Mawphlang said they would question the authorities over their apathy to address the anomalies in the functioning of the university. “As students, we are bound to question the authority and work out solutions to that effect,” he added.
Underlining the need for gender sensitisation, Nikita Synrem, editor, said, “We have decided to set up a women’s cell to enable women to come forward and raise their voices against certain issues faced by them in the campus. There are certain issues that need to be dealt with.”
