Our Correspondent
Kohima | September 23
The total number of government employees in Nagaland as on 31.3.2009 reported by the various departments comes to 87,541. This is 4.40% of the total provisional population of the State.
Out of these, class I comprised of 3561, Class-II 2400, Class III- 59044 and Class –IV 22536. Class IV employees constitutes 25.74 % of the total government employees. Naga employees constituted 92.59% of the total employees and the remaining 7.41% of the total employees were non-Nagas.
The total strength of the employees increased to 87,541 in 2009 from 86, 535 in 2008 indicating an increase of 1006 employees over the period of one year. The percentage was 1.15 % more than preceding year.
According to the report compiled by State’s Directorate of Economics & Statistics, female play an insignificant role as government employees in all categories except Class III service. The strength was 688, 424, 13085 and 3940 in Class I, Class II, Class III and Class IV respectively, representing 19.32%, 17.67%, 22.15% and 17.48% of the total employees.
Christians constituted 92.73% of the total employees with 6.41% Hindus, 0.13 Muslims and 0.73% belonging to other religion during the reference year.
There are as many as 81115 scheduled tribe employees in the state constituting 92.66 % of the total number of employees in this year. The percentage share of schedule tribe employees in Class I, Class II, Class III and Class IV service in this year were 92. 39%, 93.85%, 93. 85% and 89.52% respectively in the respective cadres of services.
The different classes of employees are distributed in 12 basic pay groups. It is observed that 11.55% of the employees during this year received basis pay less than Rs.2550 per month. Of the remaining 83.50% received basic pay less than 8500 per month and the remaining 4.95% received basic pay of Rs. 8500 and above.
The available data indicate that 67.48% of the employees were 45 years of age and below. The remaining 18.65% of the employees fall in the age group of 46 years and above.
Police department is employing 26.27% of the employees in 2009 ranked firsts as employer, followed by school education department with 17.74% of employees.
In Class IV there were 1762 employees who were illiterate. 87.30% of the posts were non-plan and 12.70% were plan post.
Kohima district has the highest number of employees due to the location of civil secretariat and offices of the head of departments and Kiphire district has the lowest number of employees.
Government employees district wise as on March 31st 2009
Kohima - 23825
Phek 7311
Mokokchung 12744
Wokha 4208
Zunheboto 6795
Tuensang 7503
Mon 5483
Dimapur 13060
Peren 3166
Longleng 1780
Kiphire 1666
