DIMAPUR, DEC 18 (MExN): The Nagaland government has violated the constitution if a statement made by the Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees’ Association (CANSSEA) is to be believed. A release issued by the association’s President Dr K Solo stated, “The members of the confederation were extremely aggrieved to see two appalling orders of the State Government, first one being No. FIN/ROP/V-PC/98-99/1 dated 11/10/2000 purporting to amend the ROP rules 1999. The other one is No. FIN/ROP/V-PC/98-99/2 dated 11/10/2000 shifting the date of grant revised pay scales from 01/06/98 to 01/04/2000.” Terming both orders as arbitrary, irrational and unethical the release stated that there was no change in the circumstances that warranted a postponement in the grant of revised scale “which is in total contempt and utter disregard to the agreement of 05/10/98 and an infringement of Article-14 of the Constitution of India.”
Having weighed the pros and cons meticulously, the confederation has resolved to adopt a two-pronged stratagem- firstly, representing the matter with Government expressing its “serious reservation of many conspicuous departures and significant distortions” and secondly, contesting the above two impugned notifications in the supreme court culminating in the writ petition (C) No. 565/2000 under Article-32 of the Constitution of India.
It was on November 11 last that the case came up for hearing before a Division Bench. On hearing, the Bench held the view that the writ petition filed by the CANSSEA and the Nagaland government be agitated at the first instance before the High Court of Judicature in exercise of its powers under Article-226 and the pleadings of the parties which are complete may be sent to that Court which, upon receipt, is to be registered as the writ petition.
