Dimapur, November 11 (MExN): The Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland has expressed extreme shock over the alleged State Cabinet’s proposal to regularise hundreds of backdoor appointees and cautioned against such a move.
A press note from ACAUT Media Cell informed that the proposal was placed before the Cabinet at its meeting held at the Chief Minister’s office on November 11.
If the State Cabinet goes ahead with the regularisation, it will be held guilty of contempt of court since the Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench, has already stayed the contentious Office Memorandums dated 4.8.2008 and 11.8.2016 “allowing the government to regularise all backdoor appointments after 3 years of service,” it maintained. However, it noted that the outcome of the meeting is yet to be known.
The High Court stayed the OMs in its interim order dated 28.7.17 after a writ petition was filed by the ACAUT and PSAN challenging backdoor appointments made after June 6, 2016, it added.
The ACAUT demanded an immediate clarification from the Cabinet regarding the status of sl. nos. 10, 16, 22,23,26,27 & 39 of the alleged “memo” pertaining to regularisation of backdoor appointments. The ‘memo’ was widely shared in various social media platforms.
“In case the Cabinet has already regularised the appointees, such will be nothing short of killing the future of thousands of Naga youths for which the Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues will have to bear eventual consequences,” ACAUT further contended.
Meanwhile, in a joint memorandum submitted to the Nagaland Chief Minister, ACAUT Nagaland and Public Service Aspirants of Nagaland (PSAN) also notified the Cabinet about the “illegality” of the decision if it goes ahead with the alleged proposals and said that it would be a “wilful violation” of Court’s stay order on July 28, 2017.
