New Delhi, May 31 (Deccan Herald): The Indian civil services officers are feeling a sense of discrimination in Nagaland as they are not getting a promotion to cadres posts due to them. From Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS) are said to be feeling the heat due to alleged “Naga versus outsider” discrimination, as an officer of the state pointed out. The department of personnel and training and union home ministry have received representations from the IPS of Nagaland cadre, seeking centre’s intervention to end the anomaly of not getting cadre posts despite eligibility, said government sources. On April 24, an MHA under secretary wrote to Nagaland chief secretary Pankaj Kumar, asking him to look into the denial of promotion to cadres posts and send the status report to the ministry urgently. Kumar was not available for comments despite attempts to reach him on his phone. DGP Nagaland LL Doungel did not find much merit in the IPS officer’s charge that they were being denied promotional avenues. Speaking to DH over the phone, Doungel said “that is not quite so as it is made out to be. Officers came here and keep changing their cadre so the vacancies have to be filled by state cadre police officers”. Doungel said: “It’s a long story” and abruptly disconnected the conversation when asked why promotion scale has been denied to the IPS officers. The IPS officers have also petitioned DGP Nagaland to get their pending promotion to become Superintendents of Polices (SPs) – the rank from where cadre post starts till the topmost slot in the state. From SP to the DGP, there are over three dozen posts for the IPS officers. At the SP level alone, 19 posts are reserved for the IPS, said government sources but currently, hardly five are with the IPS including state promotee officers. The remaining are with Nagaland cadre service police officers. The 2012 batch police officers have claimed that since “senior time scale” have been withheld since 2016 they have not got promotion. IAS officers are confronted with a similar situation as a number of them too have not been given deputy collectors posts. The state refused to accept Indian Forest Service probationer Palve Vijay Triambak was allotted Nagaland cadre. Environment and forest secretary of Nagaland Imtienla Ao wrote to the director of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy that “the state government is not in a position to accommodate any new direct recruit IFS officers for the time being due to some technical problem in cadre management in the state”. Anomalies & corrective measures Dimapur, May 31 (MexN): Nagaland State DGP LL Doungel, while speaking to The Morung Express, clarified on the report. “Nagaland IPS cadre was created in 1989, more than 25 years after the State came into being in 1963,” he said. As a result of this, many anomalies showed up. “To ensure that all posts were occupied and the cadre was functional, certain improvisations were adopted which led to a few anomalies. To address these anomalies certain correctional measures were taken but because of the high attrition rate of direct IPS officers, it was not possible to correct the anomalies instantly. Therefore, the government had to resort to posting of NPS officers to man the cadre IPS posts. Recognizing this anomaly, posting transfers are done after due consideration,” he explained.
