Students’ conclave echoes frustration about Nagaland’s job condition

EMN
Kohima, January 24

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he dearth of employment opportunities for students and youths, the oversaturated government service, and the general incompetence of currently employed state workers were some of the points of concern during a students’ conference in Kedima village in Kohima recently.
Former president of the Angami Students’ Union Kezhazer Angami challenged the student community to render their best in their pursuit of study. That demand was required more so as to compete with the ‘highest degree of temperament in competitive examinations,’ he said.
“Only the best of best will have to survive in this fast changing global world scenario,” Angami asserted. He was speaking as a guest of the 65th Southern Angami Students’ Union’s (SASU) general conference on Friday evening. The event was conducted with the theme “Adapt, Improvise, Achieve” in Kidima village under Kohima.According to Angami, the government of Nagaland was already overburdened with ‘excess’ government employees. A time will come when the government servants will need to be phased out and ‘only the best of the best would be required to serve the people,’ he remarked.
The former students’ leader revealed that out of 100 % grants the state receives from the government of India, almost 65 % are doled out to government workers as salary. The rest of the funds, 35 %, are left for developmental works. This is the sad, current affairs of the state of Nagaland, he said.
Kezhazer Angami also encouraged the students to build ‘better goal s.’ Students ought to nurture ‘high aims’ in their pursuits to ‘achieve glory and honor,’ he said. In that way, he explained, they may bring laurels to the community and the state.
A host of student leaders from across the state including the Naga Students’ Federation, Angami Students’ Union, and All Nagaland College Students’ Union, and social workers, among others, attended the general conference.
Among other speakers as well, leaders of the Southern Angami Women Organization also urged the students and younger generation to respect elders of the community.
The function was presided over by Neitho Tacii, while the pastor of Kidima Baptist Church Tepewhekho Thokwe said the invocation. The guests of the session were the Southern Angami Women Organization’s leaders. The three-day conference of the students’ organization will conclude on January 25.