Kevitho Kera
A meritorious and hardworking youth gives his best after he sees advertisements in the papers. He burns his midnight oil and toils hard for it but alas the jobs are already taken up by Ministers for their family members, relatives, close ones and those who voted for them, taken up by Bureaucrats for their family members, relatives, close ones or known people. The exams are a big farce, the interviews are manipulated. The meritorious and hardworking youth toils in vain. Many a times, these vacancies are filled up without even advertising the posts.
These people who get their jobs through backdoor go ahead and become the most corrupted government servants. These people does not perform their duties well nor are they qualified or efficient. Why? These people does not know the value of hardwork or has any integrity. These unqualified and undeserving people go ahead and runs government departments. How is Nagaland supposed to even progress? These people will go ahead and one day continue the trend of illegal appointments. The vicious cycle continues. Tell me a State run by undeserving, unqualified and inefficient bureaucrats, how will it progress?
I am appalled and shocked on things said by some people in our State. Let me cite some examples. " Nijor ghor manu minister thaka time te chance lobole lage. Ghor manu aru bosti manu ke dhamadaam kaam te gusabi" "Moi bi chance pailetoh backdoor para kaam lobo " " Kimaan mangi ase ? Maati bikiri kurikene kaam kini bo". These phrases are by so called educated, enlightened and Christian Nagas. The trend here in Nagaland is for example if someone gets the Home portfolio, people of his/her tribe will fill the posts in the police department. Another example is, the tribesmen of the Director of Rural Development will fill the vacancies of the department.
Am saddened by the fact that we take pride in calling ourselves a CHRISTIAN State and Nepotism and bribery runs rampant in our State. How do we even sit in the pews of our Churches? No guilt? Don't we even realize that we will be answerable to our living God for this? Are we fine with these kinds of injustices around us? We are supposed to be Christians!
We have no right to complain that our State is backward with this trend of backdoor and illegal appointments going on. I personally applaud ACAUT Nagaland and Public Service Aspirants of Nagaland (PSAN) for taking up backdoor appointments. I request the Naga Students' Federation (NSF) to tackle this cancer with all urgency. There are new office bearers in the
NSF, i put my hopes on you on this issue. I request our Naga brothers and sisters to extend support to ACAUT Nagaland and PSAN, sponsor them and fund them because it involves a lot of money especially when it comes to legal proceedings.
Please Naga Christians. Let us say no to backdoor appointments and let us join hands in fighting it.
