Janata Dal United (JD-U), Nagaland has termed the demand of All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) for upgrading the Khelhoshe Polytechnic, Atoizu (KPA) into a full-fledged engineering college as a necessity for the state. In a statement, JD-U state president Senchumo Nsn Lotha and general secretary (administration) Imsumongba Pongen noted that all states of the country have at least one full-fledged engineering college, while Nagaland was way behind in this aspect.
They pointed out that the flight of students from Nagaland for want of technical education outside was increasing every year, which was having huge financial impact on the Nagas as a whole. JD-U said it was saddening to observe that none of the successive governments in Nagaland had ever given a serious thought on the educational development of the state, be it at the school or college levels.
The party stressed that health, education and roads were the three basic requirements that laid the foundation towards a welfare state. And education being the centre of these three basic domains in the affairs of good governance, they insisted that the Nagaland government must wake up with never too late approach and radically work towards reformation of education.
“Educated society has always proven to ameliorate a grieving social menace. Nagaland today is under the grip of economic stagnancy, breeding troubles in all spheres of lives. The future of the Naga society is at its height of uncertainty,” they stated.
Hence, JD-U called upon the present dispensation to exert its utmost emphasis on advancement of education in Nagaland as the top priority in its agenda of good governance. Towards this end, it said upgrading the KPA into full-fledged engineering college could be the first step.