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Sangma seeks student cover

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published Published on May 1, 2012   modified Modified on May 1, 2012
-The Telegraph

Meghalaya chief minister today called for a legislation that would protect students from the Northeast from “insensitive behaviour”, almost a week after his niece, Dana Sangma, killed herself in a Delhi hostel after being allegedly ill-treated by an invigilator.

Speaking to reporters at the Delhi Press Club today, Sangma asserted that Dana was targeted only because of her background.

The 21-year-old, writing her second semester MBA examination at Amity Business School in Manesar on April 24, committed suicide in her hostel after the invigilator accused her of cheating.

“There were just 20-odd people in the examination room. And she was sitting in the front row. As far as the form filled by the invigilator is concerned, it says that the mobile was in her pocket. So how is it possible that she cheated using her phone?” he asked.

It was evident his niece was singled out and the invigilator abused her and humiliated her, he added.

He asked for “stringent follow-up” to the case of his niece’s suicide till its logical end.

Sangma also refused to subscribe to the university’s version that Dana was not discriminated against and that her suicide could be because of “personal reasons.”

Sangma has called for an overarching law that can tackle such insensitive attitude towards the people from Northeast, especially in education institutions.

“An immediate initiative for enactment of a law which shall lay down a set of stringent guidelines for appropriately addressing the issue of security and safety of students and regulating the behaviour of the administration, authorities of institutions and universities is of urgent need,” Sangma said.

“The issue of safety, security and well-being of the students, particularly in the case of students from the Northeast who also follow a culture which others in this part of the country are less familiar with, is a matter of concern,” he said.

“The present situation demands a larger engagement of all the stakeholders for putting in place a system that will deter the tendency of discrimination and atrocities in universities by insensitive administration,” he said.

Sangma has also written to human resource development minister Kapil Sibal about this incident and demanded that the ministry look into the issue.

“We should use this incident to take up the problem that the Northeast youths are facing all over the nation. And my reaction would have been same even if the incident had happened to any one else in Meghalaya,” he said.

He said the problem is such incidents had negative impact on years of work done by government in integrating the Northeast. “Instance of discriminations have a lot of negative impact and is a threat to the integration of nation,” he added.

Police have applied the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act besides abetment of suicide charges (306 IPC) against the staff and management of Amity University, on Punchgaon campus, Gurgaon, in the case.

ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY ANDREW W. LYNGDOH

The Telegraph, 1 May, 2012, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120501/jsp/frontpage/story_15439211.jsp#.T596NVL5nYQ


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