Calls for fresh open recruitment against the vacancies
TUENSANG, MAY 21 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has written to the Commissioner and Secretary, School Education and SCERT, requesting cancellation of twenty nine appointments made through a notification dated February 27, 2014. It further demanded that the department conduct fresh open recruitment against the said vacancies.
TUENSANG, MAY 21 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) has written to the Commissioner and Secretary, School Education and SCERT, requesting cancellation of twenty nine appointments made through a notification dated February 27, 2014. It further demanded that the department conduct fresh open recruitment against the said vacancies.
The appointments include twelve lecturers (class-1 gazetted), four research associates (ra) asst. professor (class-1 gazetted), eight work experience teachers (class-11 gazetted) and five training-cum-research assistants (class-11 gazetted).
The ENSF, in the letter, stated that the Department of School Education & SCERT, via a notification dated February 27, 2014 had appointed four Research Associates (RA)/Asst. Professor (Class-1Gazetted) under the establishment of SCERT in the pay band of Rs 15600-39100 and grade pay of Rs 5400 and five Training-cum-Research Assistant (Class-11Gazetted) in the pay band of Rs 9300-34800 and grade pay of Rs 4600. Twelve Lecturers to the vacancies of Lecturers/Asst. Professor (Class-1Gazetted) under the establishment of DIET in the pay band of Rs 15600-39100 and grade pay of Rs. 5400 and eight Work Experience Teachers (Class-11Gazetted) in the pay band of Rs 9300-34800 and grade pay of Rs. 4600 were also appointed through the same notification, the ENSF informed.
However, it referred to the Nagaland state government Notification No: PAR-B/6/2008(Pt), dated August 30, 2011, informing that the Nagaland Governor had passed the Nagaland Public Service Commission 6th Amendment Regulation 15 (1) (i). This amendment regulation states that, “direct recruitment/appointment can be made as per the service rules concerned by an authority other then the Governor only to a post on a scale of pay, the minimum of which is less than Rs 5200-20200 per month with grade pay of Rs 2800 per month.”
It stated that failure to implement the said government notification, dated August 30, 2011 “in letter and in spirit” has “invited the attention of ENSF to intervene in this matter.” The ENSF further stated that many appointments had been made on contractual basis without adhering to the prescribed rules and procedure in various categories of posts. This, it lamented, has “seriously affected or rather defeated the effective implementation of the Reservation policy in the directorate level, as a result of which many deserving students from the backward tribes are deprived of their basic Fundamental Right to Equal Opportunity in the government services.”
