DIMAPUR, MARCH 27 (MExN): The Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) Nagaland today stated that the recent “justification and reply given by Home Minister Y Patton on backdoor appointment during the Assembly session was a direct insult to lakhs of unemployed Naga youths.”
A press note from the ACAUT said that the Home Minister’s response has “exposed the pitiable condition under which the department of Home is being run as personal employment industry along with its subordinate fiefdoms.”
The Minister’s response that as per P&AR memorandum in 2010, appointments of lower grade posts in the police department were exempted from seeking clearance of the government was termed as a “pitiable excuse” by ACAUT.
It pointed to Article 16 of the Constitution of India and its clauses which ensures “equality of opportunity in matters of public employment...” and reminded the Home Minister that on November 5, 2015, the Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) had “exposed thousands of backdoor appointments in his department.”
“Any layman can safely conclude that he has made no effort to take corrective measures to streamline his employment industry, depriving lakhs of unemployed youths of opportunity to compete in open recruitment,” ACAUT said.
It added that the Home Department has also “ignored and undermined” the state reservation policy which reserves 37 % for backward tribes with 25% for Eastern Nagaland and 12% for others.
It urged the Home Minister to cancel all “backdoor appointments” in his department and call for open recruitment as per Article 16 of Indian constitution and State reservation policy. ACAUT also appealed to the ENPO to “voice out and fight for their rights of 768 posts which can help usher into a leap and bound economic and social up-liftmen of our backward brothers.”
It further alleged that the Home Minister has “created negative parliamentary history and wrong precedence by implicating officers for the backdoor appointments instead of taking responsibility.” “This has also made it crystal clear that he is not in control of the department but the fiefdoms of Commandants and SPs are at large making the Legislative and the Executive branch of democracy in Nagaland a mockery,” it added.
The Home Department’s “backdoor appointment,” it meanwhile claimed, “has outpaced NPSC in recruitment in the last four years.” ACAUT also pointed out that earlier the post of ABSI/UBSI was requisition by NPSC, which was again taken back by the home department. It therefore demanded that the recruitment for ABSI/UBSI be immediately requisitioned to NPSC.
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