Influx of students, workers into Nagaland ebbs

PTI Updated - August 22, 2012 at 08:45 PM.

The influx of students and employees returning from Bangalore and other cities to Nagaland has ebbed, official sources said. The State Government had set up a control room to the monitor the numbers.

Altogether 745 Naga students and employees have arrived at Dimapur till this morning; the administration providing them help to reach home from the railway station and airport, Dimapur district administration sources said.

The state directorate of higher education has also set up a control room-cum-facilitation centre at its office here to keep track of students who have been affected by the situation in Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Director Chubainla Jamir asked the affected students to register their complaints so that they could be addressed.

Meanwhile, three Nagaland-based Muslim organisations have constituted a goodwill team to visit Bangalore, Pune and other cities from today to help contain the prevailing situation.

The Dimapur Muslim Public Forum, Muslim Council Dimapur and Muslim Welfare Society, Kohima, constituted a seven member goodwill team to visit the cities from where NE students and workers have fled over past week, the organisations said in a statement here.

An appeal was made to parents by the North East Students’ Community Forum, Pune, which said normalcy was returning to the city and there should not be any cause for worry.

Meanwhile, Nagaland Power Minister Doshehe Sema has visited Bangalore and met Karnataka Home Minister and the Naga students community.

Sema invited the home minister to visit Nagaland as a goodwill gesture which the latter agreed to, officials said.

Published on August 22, 2012 15:15