Morung Express News
Dimapur | September 26
Come October and the number of unemployed in the state will be lessened, albeit, only by a few hundreds. Following the state government’s advertisement for ‘Holding of Simultaneous Recruitment Test/Interview for Directorate and District LDAs in Various Departments’ on September 9 last, applications from aspiring candidates numbering in the thousands has been received for filling roughly about 300 odd plus vacant posts of LDAs in the state departments. It also includes computer assistants.
According to sources in the Secretariat, Kohima, it has received more than 4000 applications for filling 95 vacant posts at the directorate level as on September 21 last, which was the last date for submission of forms. This was prior to the department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms publishing an ‘Addendum’ in the news papers on September 25, informing of a further 37 vacant posts of ‘Junior Accounts Assistant’ in the Directorate of Treasuries & Accounts. It had informed: “There is no need for separate application for this post, and qualifications for the post are similar to that of LDAs”.
It is left to anyone’s imagination how many more candidates will apply for the said 37 number of posts. When the applications at the district level are added to this, the numerical figure will, no doubt, soar even higher. There are 202 empty posts at the district level offices of the various government departments, according to the ‘Addendum’ of September 25. Those who opted for posts at the district level tendered their applications at the office of the respective district returning officer. Only the state’s civil and its allied services attract more number of job-seekers.
October 2 will be kind of a ‘judgement day’, when all the prospective candidates will appear the written test simultaneously in Kohima and the rest of the district headquarters. According to the stipulated norms, those who applied for posts at the directorates of the various state departments’ will sit for the exams at Kohima. And those who applied at the district level will appear at the district where they applied.
The questions will be set by the NPSC irrespective of the different departments or choice of deployment. There are no separate qualifications required for eligibility to the posts at either the directorates or the district levels.
According to some of the applicants, they were not given the option of which department to opt for. They only had the option of either opting for the ‘Directorate Level’ or the ‘District Level’ in the application forms.
One candidate felt that this system of recruitment is quite fair, somewhat free from unwanted intervention from the ‘higher-ups’, unlike the department-wise recruitment exams in the past. The person opined that there will be little room for ‘unfair practice’ or rather ‘nepotism’.
According the norms stipulated the process of examination and the declaration of results must be completed by the end of October. The candidates who successfully clear the exams will finally be employed at the respective directorates or at the district offices as specified by them in the application forms.
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