Future uncertain, students seek answer

SHILLONG, MAY 1: Worried students of the CMJ university has asked the university authority to clarify on the report that the Meghalaya Governor RS Mooshahary has directed the University Chancellor to withdraw all the degrees given by the institute and also stop admission because of various anomalies in its functioning even as the FKJGP president Joe Marwein has demanded that the state government take strong action or else it will be forced to take law into its own hand.

Students from Jaintia hills also ghearoed the CMJ University center in Jowai after the news broke out.

Concerned and confused over their future after Mooshahary directives to the university, the classroom in the CMJ University on Wednesday was one of total chaos and the students did not attend the classes.

A first year MA student from Arunachal Pradesh told this website in the university, “We demand immediate answers from the authority including the Chancellor CM Jha on the the Governor’s order as it is of serious concerns to us and our career.”.

On Tuesday the Governor , who is also the university’s visitor, issued an order to the CMJ university to recall and withdraw all degrees awarded so far and also submit a  fresh proposal for the appointment of the Chancellor and submits its compliance report within May 21.

The student  said that the CMJ university told the students that the order will not affect them but only those who are seeking new admission. He said, “We are in absolute dilemma whom to believe and what not to believe as it really concerns our education as well as career and if the university is shutdown we are doomed.”

Another student also seems to confirm the fear that the degrees given by the CMJ university are not recognized by the government as he revealed that some of their seniors from Arunachal Pradesh who have graduated from the University had informed him that the certificates issued to them by the CMJ university has been rejected by the government.  He said, “We don’t how far this is true and that is why we want the authority of the institute to clarify on the Governor’s order.”

The student, who is in second year student said, “We felt very bad as we keep on hearing a lot about such controversies relating to the university and we don’t know what is going to happen next.”

He rued, “Our dreams have been shattered.”

However allaying fears of the students, CMJ University Deputy Registrar Dr Prem Lal Rai told reporters that the classes will continue but ‘fresh’ admission will not be taken.

Rai claimed that as far as the proposal for appointment of Chancellor is concerned, the university had submitted the letter to the visitor- Governor- thrice time since 2009 and said that the university did not get any response from the Governor’s office.

Rai also asserted that none of the degrees offered by the university are fake as they are all recognized and approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC). Claiming that the CMJ University is not functioning illegally and recognized by the UGC, he said, “We will also be going to take the matter to the court.”

Meanwhile the FKJGP has demanded stern action against CMJ University and its chancellor CM Jha for allegations of wrong doing, failing which, the organization has threatened to take law into its own hands.

FKJGP president Joe Marwein told www.ohmeghalaya.com website over the phone that the state governor must inquire into the affairs of the university so as to ensure that the people of the state are not cheated. “It was the government who gave the university the permission to operate, and if government do not take strong action then we will have no other choice than to take law into our hand,” he said.

Marwein requested the governor to inquire into all the private universities that have sprung up in the state without fulfilling proper norms and sans any infrastructure of their own. “The private universities that have come up in the state are basically there to cheat the local students,” he said. –By Our Reporter