Aizawl, Aug 21: Mizoram’s influential student body, the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), has urged state Governor Vijay Kumar Singh to intervene in the admission issue involving seven engineering seats allotted to the state under the Central pool quota.
A delegation of MZP led by its president Dr C Lalremruata met Singh at Lok Bhavan here on Thursday evening and discussed issues related to education, national integration tours for Mizo students and drug awareness and prevention campaigns, the organisation’s general secretary Lalhmingsanga Chhangte said on Friday.
During the meeting, the MZP delegation informed the governor that five civil engineering and two electrical and electronics engineering seats allotted to Mizoram under the Central pool quota at Matrusri Engineering College in Hyderabad could not be filled, creating difficulties for students, Chhangte said.
The students’ body said it had already approached Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi in writing over the issue.
In response, Singh assured the MZP leaders that he would take up the matter with the Union Education minister at the earliest and urged the affected students not to be apprehensive, Chhangte said.
The MZP also sought support for organising National Integration Tours for Mizo students to various parts of the country.
The governor asked the students’ body to submit in writing the places proposed for the tours so that necessary action could be initiated.
During the interaction, the delegation also discussed plans to conduct drug awareness and prevention campaigns in educational institutions across the state.
Welcoming the initiative, Singh said awareness against drug abuse should begin at the elementary level and be carried out extensively at all levels, given the impact of substance abuse on families and society.
He told the student leaders that he would discuss the proposed drug awareness campaign with the director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). (PTI)
