Dimapur, June 8 (MExN): The Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) has welcomed the move of the State government in banning all ad-hoc/ casual/ temporary/ work-charged appointments as notified by the P&AR department through an Office Memorandum (OM) dated June 6.
NPRAAF in a press note issued by its Information & Publicity Cell stated that it is a huge relief for thousands of educated unemployed youth who are struggling hard to get government jobs through a fair and impartial system of open competition.
However, the Forum stated that the OM banning contractual appointments aims to serve only as a “prevention/ vaccination against outbreak of further destructive disease of backdoor appointments.”
The Office Memorandum, it said, does in no way “cure the disease which has already afflicted the society very deeply. Hence, it is important that while preventive measures are taken, the cure to existing diseases is extremely important and the government must evolve with another step to cleanse the government of all backdoor appointments which has deprived immense job opportunities to qualified people,” the note stated.It added, “Even if the ban on contractual appointments is to be 100% successful, yet if all sorts and classes of existing backdoor appointments in the government are not rooted out thoroughly, the disease of corruption shall remain entrenched.”
Therefore, NPRAAF has called upon the government to take a bold step to cancel all backdoor appointments in the government system and let justice be made available to all bonafide citizens.
Meantime, NPRAAF extended its support and cooperation to the Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organization in their fight for the rights of the consumers and against backdoor appointments.
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