By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Nov 5: The Joint Action Committee (JAC), which is made up of NEHUTA, NEHUSU, and NEHUNSA, will convene on Monday to take a call on their next course of action following Vice Chancellor Prabha Shankar Shukla’s defence of the purported hiring of technical officer Rohit Prasad.
JAC chairman Lakhon Kma stated on Sunday that they will also discuss other problems and irregularities that the current VC has committed.
On Friday, the JAC passed a resolution stating that the VC’s own compensation will be used to retrieve the sum that had been provided to Prasad as salary for the previous 10 months.
The university was given a deadline of ten days by the JAC to meet its requirements.
Kma further demanded that the VC release Prasad’s letter of termination to the public.
He further asserted that Shukla removed all NEHU ordinance statutes and regulations off the official university website on purpose. He said that as a result, there is growing dissatisfaction among the staff, students, and teachers.
Kma threatened to escalate their agitation starting on November 13 if the JAC’s demands were not granted.
On Saturday, the NEHU VC asserted that the technical officer was appointed in accordance with all regulations and directives. Shukla declared at a news conference, “NEHUTA is pressuring me to take a wrong decision but I am not going to do that.”
He began by reading the NEHU statutes and regulations. “Rohit Prasad was the technical advisor to the Director of IIT Roorkee prior to joining NEHU. For this reason, he was hired on a contract basis as a technical adviser,” he stated.
