Dimapur, May 10 (MExN): The Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) today expressed concern that the Food & Civil Supplies Department, Nagaland has shown disregard to the issue of backdoor appointment in appointing “3 more LDAs on 10 March 2016.” This finding, the NPRAAF informed, is based on RTI reply furnished by the Department to the forum.
The NPRAAF informed that it had earlier “exposed the appointments of more than 109 Grade III staff in the Department during the period January 2003-November 2015.” “Out of 109, the Department furnished documentary evidences only for 36 of them whose appointments were made mostly against retirement, promotion and demise of employees. The remaining 73 appointed lacks any documentary evidence,” the forum had alleged.
The NPRAFF reiterated its demand that the appointments of these 73 persons be immediately cancelled and open recruitment be conducted through proper channel against the resultant vacancies. Additionally, the order of recently appointed 3 LDAs must also be cancelled and their posts be made open for competition, it asked.
The NPRAAF alleged that several other irregularities such as “non-existent date (30/02/2014) of appointment order issued, the date of joining service superseding appointment order, no date of appointments, two different dates of joining service etc were also detected.”
It alleged that “an infant of hardly five months was also appointed as an LDA as per RTI documents.” “Even in the case of NPSC recruits, the appointments of one SK and one LDA were not substantiated with documentary evidence,” it added.
The NPRAAF appealed to the Department of Food & Civil Supplies to look into these issues and rectify it “before the forum resorts to protests.
