Faculty members of North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) have strongly opposed the decision to hold the university’s 193rd Executive Council (EC) meeting in New Delhi on November 14, describing it as a “wasteful and regressive move” that violates ministry directives and previous agreements. The NEHU Teachers’ Association (NEHUTA) criticized Vice-Chancellor Prof. P.S. Shukla, who has been absent from the Shillong campus for nearly a year amid protests and allegations of mismanagement, for attempting to preside over the meeting despite opposition and prior understandings with the Ministry of Education. The association also condemned the financial burden of holding the meeting outside the campus during austerity and cited a Ministry directive instructing central universities to conduct statutory meetings within their campuses for transparency. NEHUTA urged the administration not to squander limited resources and reaffirmed its commitment to safeguard faculty and university interests.
