Nagaland varsity VC expresses inability to continue in office

KOHIMA, June 7 ? The Vice-Chancellor of Nagaland University Prof GD Sharma has urged the ?Visitor? of the university and President of India KR Narayanan to relieve him from the post with immediate effect, reports PTI. In a letter to the President, who holds the post of honorary Visitor of the university, Sharma Monday requested him to take note of his last August?s letter relinquishing the post in the wake of mounting pressures from teachers and the student community for his resignation. While requesting the university ?Visitor? to kindly accept his decision ?to relinquish the VC?s post with immediate effect,? Sharma in his correspondence to the President further stated ?I hereby express inability to remain in the office on this day of June three, 2002.?

The letter sent to Union Human Resource Development ministry had been dated August eight, 2001. Though the HRD ministry reportedly asked Sharma to continue, both students, teachers and certain local NGOs stuck to their demands for his removal. A copy of Monday?s letter was also sent to the Nagaland Governor and university?s honorary ?Rector? Shyamal Datta. The Nagaland University Teachers Association (NUTA), Post Graduate Students Union (PGSU), Naga Students Federation and others had been calling for the VC?s removal alleging that he did not possess the required administrative and academic experience to head the university, grappling with one problem or the other since its inception in 1994.