By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: The new-look KSU Central Executive Committee (CEC) is determined to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and take up the issues which are affecting the student community at large like exorbitant fees being charge by private institutions, besides following up on pending issues.
“We are going to closely follow up on the pending issues which were pursued by our predecessors. The Influx issue would be followed up by the new body in the right earnest,” KSU president Daniel Khyriem said during the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected members of the central body here on Saturday.
He further said that they would organize movements to pressurize the Government to adopt measures to check the influx problem in the State.
Stating that the Work Permit System (WPS) is one of the mechanisms to check influx, Khyriem said that the Government needs to come up with more mechanism to check the problem of influx. He also informed that the KSU would also continue to pursue with the government on the Land Transfer Act to stop indiscriminate sale of indigenous land to non-tribal entities, be it companies or individuals.
Expressing concern on the exorbitant fees charged by most of the private institutions in the State, Khyriem said the Union would also closely follow this issue with the Government for the overall interest of the student community in the State.
He said that they would also demand for setting up of more educational institutes that should be run by the government, while adding that there are students who are being deprived of education just because their parents cannot afford to pay the high fees charged by private institutes.
In the absence of government rules to ensure uniform fee structure, many private educational institutes are charging fees according to their whims fancies, much to the sufferings of the parents and their wards, the KSU leader observed.
Meanwhile, former KSU president Samuel Jyrwa firmly believed that the new leadership would be able to perform better under the dynamic leadership of Khyriem and other members of the CEC.
Jyrwa also reminded the new leadership of the ups and downs including temptations they would be facing being the leaders but asked them to remain true to their cause.
Former general secretary Hamlet Dohling, while recollecting that he had been associated with the KSU since 1993, said, “Though I have left the KSU I will continue serving the public through other platforms.” Dohling’s remark comes in the wake of speculations in the political circle that given a chance, he would join the fray in the 2013 Assembly elections from Mylliem constituency.
It may be mentioned that the term of the newly-elected members of the KSU CEC will expire in 2015.