Imphal, November 30: The Manipur Students' Association, Delhi is set to organise another discussion session with regard to the harassments faced by the people of North East, particularly students when they come the National capital.

Along with organising the discussion session, MSAD is also set to open centres all over Delhi University to guide and counsel students from the North East who come to seek admission there.

Speaking to reporters at the AMSU headquarters at DM College campus, today, MSAD president Sanabam Gunajit said that the harassments meted out to the people of North East, particularly to the students at Delhi is nothing but a case of racial discrimination.

Asserting his point, the student leader said that many students from the NE especially the young girls are subjected to taunts and harassments from their landlords and hostel mates.

Some of them have even been molested and raped, he said and added this type of selective behaviour towards the students from the North East is racial discrimination and nothing else.

Due to shame, fear and social stigma, many of the young girls quietly bear the harassments and do not report the matter, he added.

Recent examples of harassment and molestation cases should be enough testimony, observed Gunajit.

The MSAD president pointed out the cases of rape and molestation at Safdarjung, Vijay Nagar and Noida in the recent past.

Many of the women facing the harassments are employed as nurses and laboratory technicians at Delhi, said Gunajit.

Instead of the situation improving, cases of harassments and molestations are on the rise, said Gunajit and added that even though the identities of the accused were made known to the police, no fitting action has been taken up.

To check such harassments and intimidation, MSAD has set up mobile teams and started deploying them, informed the student leader.

However, there are certain difficulties faced by the MSAD to keep a check on the some 15,000 students from the North East.

There is a need to know the name of the students, the institutes where they are studying, the rooms where they have taken on rent, their telephone numbers, said Gunajit and added that it is to address these issues that another meeting was called at the hall of DM College of Teachers' Education.

The meeting will be participated by the guardians of students studying at Delhi and representatives of student organisations, said the MSAD president.

However since many guardians did not turn up for the meeting another meeting has been convened at GP Women's College on December 2 at 11 am.

Gunajit appealed to all to attend the proposed meeting.

Since many fresh students come to Delhi every year seeking admission, they are exposed to all the harassments, said Gunajit and added that the fact that since many of them are not familiar with the place, they become easy prey.

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