Points to ‘alarming appointment of non locals and under-qualified candidates’ in state police department
DIMAPUR, APRIL 17 (MExN): The Nagaland Congress today questioned the “alarming appointment of non locals and under/unqualified candidates in the Nagaland State Police Department.
A press note from the party alleged that the state government is “being shifty” and accused the NPF of being “abusive over backdoor appointment, the latter even claiming that appointments were not given to non locals but only to deserving Naga youth.”
“This claim is ridiculous; NPF is plainly ignorant of ground reality, particularly about appointment in Police Department,” it stated.
The Nagaland Congress meanwhile furnished data, which it stated was acquired through the PHQ Office in reply to an RTI query.
It revealed that from January 2009 to December 3, 2015, altogether 7005 candidates were appointed against the post of constable, NCE, ABSI, UBSI and ASI. The breakup of educational standard/qualification of these 7005 candidates, according to the data, is: MA/Equivalent: 64
(0.91%); BA/Equivalent: 610 (9%); 10+: 1381 (20%); and 0-10: 4050 (71%) (Qualification of those not specified are included here).
The Nagaland Congress stated that most non-tribal appointees are in the category of Class 0-10.
It informed that later, the PHQ Office gave a revised figure at 6838. “Even then, 747 Non-Locals were appointed which is 11% of total appointment,” the party pointed out. Their appointment was fourth highest (as of December 3, 2015).
It further informed that the modes of appointment, in the case of 6838 candidates were: Recruitment process: 1160 (17%); Departmental: 1672 (24%); and PHQ, Comdnt, SP etc: 4007 (59%).
The Nagaland Congress noted that departmental appointments were “more of direct appointment in most battalions and units rather than through actual recruitment process.” Direct appointment might have crossed over 70% because around 71% of appointees are in the category of Class 0-10 and unquestionably they had not gone through any recruitment process, it postulated.
It also informed that recently that the PHQ Office furnished information that altogether there are 23805 employees (as of October 13 2016) in the Police Department. Out of this total figure, 3418 are non-Locals, which constitute about 15% of the employees in the department. Non-locals are currently second highest employees in police department, surpassing all native tribes (except one) of Nagaland State, the party claimed.
It further informed that detailed records of each battalion & unit are in the custody of the party and the stated findings “can be substantiated with further evidences, as and when need arises.
The Nagaland Congress reminded that as of March 31, 2016, , 70420 young job seekers were registered in the Live Register with the Office of Employment, Skill & Entrepreneurship, Nagaland, Kohima in various categories: The included: Under Matriculate: 21033; Matriculate: 11902; Pre-University: 13025; Graduate: 19068; Post Graduate: 3795; Degree (Tech): 920; and Diploma: 67.
This, the party pointed out, “is the harsh reality the state government is unwilling to address.” “NPF is not even aware, yet senselessly challenging those who have facts.
Appointment in police department is just the tip of iceberg but it speaks volume about the dirt of backdoor appointments elsewhere,” it added.
It said that the state government and the NPF “as usual may still react negatively but whichever way they react, they must first give straight, no beating around the bush, answers to three vital questions: (i) Why & how non Locals are given such unacceptable size of appointment (15% of total employees) in police department by depriving that much the locals? (ii) Why around 71% appointment were given to under/unqualified candidates and only about 29% to qualified candidates during 2009 - 2015, when 50000 or more Naga educated youth are steadily rendered jobless? (iii) Why is only 17% of appointment done through open recruitment process and massive 83% through questionable departmental process & direct appointment by PHQ, Unit Commandant and SP during 2009 - 2015?”
The citizens, it affirmed, “must learn the truth and react at appropriate time.” The Nagaland Congress termed it a pity that “parents invest so much on children’s education and students spend good many years for higher education but the elected government does not believe in preferential treatment for the qualified in jobs.”
It further informed that the Nagaland Congress will bring out more employment related “facts & figures” to “reveal why large educated youth have become jobless due to excessive appointment of non locals, excessive direct appointment and excessive appointment of under/unqualified candidates in different government establishments.” The present government, it claimed is “not likely to reconsider the case of backdoor appointment; still then the case is placed before conscious citizens to rethink what sort of government they had elected and what they must do henceforth.”
