DIMAPUR, JANUARY 21 (MExN): Seven associations have reiterated its appeal to the Nagaland Government to reconsider the corrigendum related to Nagaland Public Service Commission adv no. NPSC/ADVT-1/04 dated 26 October 2016 and to allow the post reserved for Backward Tribes (BT) to be open to all the candidates based on merit in the upcoming exam.
In a joint press statement, the Graduate Electrical Engineers Association (GEEAN), Association of Mechanical Engineers Nagaland (AMEN-U), Unemployed Civil Engineers Association of Nagaland (UCEAN), Forestry Graduate Association of Nagaland (FGAN), Agriculture Engineers Graduate Association of Nagaland (AEGAN), All Nagaland Unemployed Veterinary Doctors Association (ANUVDA) and Electronics and Communication Engineers Association Nagaland (ECEAN) on Saturday urged the State Government to reconsider the decision as per the NPSC corrigendum where some posts have been reserved particularly for a BT tribe.
The associations maintained that such reservations is affecting the technical graduates of branches like Mechanical Engineering, E&C, IT, CS, Agriculture Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Forestry Graduates. In branches like Mechanical, E&C, CS and IT there is hardly any advertisement and when one post is advertised as in the recent NPSC (CTE), giving away that one post to one particular BT tribe cannot be considered fair and transparent enough, the associations asserted.
It also pointed out that as per the reservation policy order no. RCBT-5/87(pt-II) annexure B-I 125 point rooster table, the first vacancy is reserved for all indigenous inhabitants and only then comes the reservation for BT tribe. Correspondingly, taking into reference the reservation policy of the Government of Nagaland, the associations also requested all the concerned authorities to go/follow as per the rules and reconsider in making those advertised posts be made open to all in the upcoming CTE exam 2016. It also argued that the order RCBT-5/87(pt-II) nowhere mentions that in case of only one vacancy it ought to be reserved for a BT tribe.
The associations also lamented that despite a representation submitted to the Nagaland Chief Secretary on the same issue on November 4, 2016 and a copy handed over to the Head of Department s of all the concerned departments, no response have been received so far.
