New Delhi: Various groups of Delhi-based Northeast students have floated a new, joint forum called North East Students' United Forum, Delhi, with an avowed objective of taking up various issues and working towards dispelling the existing 'myths' about them.
The forum was formed at a meeting of all the legitimate students' organisations of the different peoples of the Northeast, who are based in Delhi and the National Capital Region on July 28, 2007. The meeting was held at Mizoram House, New Delhi.
Announcing the formation of the new forum at an interaction with the press here on Friday, NESUFD chairman F Silkam Sangma, the recent 'racial profiling' of Northeast students triggerred this coming together of all NE students' bodies to give their grievances a united voice.
Sangma said the forum would work towards creating better linkages between students from different NE states and the people living in the capital. The very idea of the forum is to provide a united platform to all the legitimate bodies of students coming from the Northeast.
As many as 10 student associations — including the Naga Students Union of Delhi, All Assam Students Association Delhi, All Bodo Students' Union among others — from the region have joined hands to create the forum, Bomrik Pakam, one of the convenors of the new forum said.
"We have found it better to work from a single platform when addressing issues and working for the welfare of students of North-east collectively," Sangma said.
Chukhu Bablu, another official of the new forum, said the forum would take up problems of students of the region and formulate long-term strategies to deal with them.
NESUFD would also work to sensitise people of the capital about the positive aspects of Northeast people and dispel the 'many myths' about the students coming from the region. "People here generally brand us like the Malaysians or Nepalese for instance," Sangma said.
“This needs to end," he said. Sangma pointed out that young people from the region are today making a huge contribution at the national levels and they have become part of life in the national capital region as well.
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