Dimapur, October 11 (MExN): Pochury students are alleging “bias” and ‘manipulation’ to ‘deprive’ the Pochury community from the reservation policy “deliberately.” The Pochury Students’ Union (PSU) claims that in the previous roster system for “backward tribes” both Chakhesang and Zeliang communities benefited “in the form of 2 gazetted posts each (an Extra Additional Commissioner and a Deputy Superintendent of Police).
However, a press release from the PSU said today, in the new roster system the Chakhesang, “by virtue of having the largest population,” had a DSP while the Zeliang and the Pochury had none. “In 2010, the same benefit was extended to Chakhesang yet again in the form of EAC (Zeliang- DSP, Pochury-nil) which means in the 3-year period (2008, 2009, 2010), under the BT quota: Chakhesang had availed 4 Gazetted posts (2 EAC, 2 DSP): Zeliang 3 Gazetted posts (1 EAC, 2 DSP); Pochury- nil,” the PSU said.
The press release was appended by PSU president Vikuolie Janry. The union has sought clarifications from the Personnel & Administrative Reforms department and the Nagaland Public Service Commission concerning the 2010 NCS/NPS and Allied Services Examination. When it was advertised by the NPSC, the PSU said, reservation of seats for Backward Tribes was according to the P&AR department’s notification dated July 23, 2008.
The notification said “...25% of all categories of both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted posts under the state government shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the 6 (six) tribes of four districts of Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire and Longleng, i.e., Chang, Khiamniungan, Konyak, Phom, Sangtam and Yimchunger.” The “balance 8%” of all categories, both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted posts was to be reserved for the Chakhesang, Pochury and Zeliang.
The PSU said “The notification clearly provides for having two rosters, one each for Gazetted and Non-gazetted posts. And all appointments shall conform to the roster until all the 200 points have been exhausted, after which the roster shall resume from the beginning. However, the result of the NCS/NPS & Allied Services 2010 indicates that there were 3 different rosters, one each for EAC, DSP and non-gazetted posts which clearly is a violation of the guidelines as laid down by the government through their notification. Are EAC and DSP not of the same class and grade, which are commonly categorised as ‘gazetted’ posts?”
When the result was declared on October 5, 2011 for the NCS/NPS & Allied Services, 2010 exam, the PSU said, it “benefited Chakhesang” (EAC) yet again and the Zeliang got a DSP “bypassing Pochury for unexplained reason.”
The union has demanded a response from the departments in concern how a particular tribe can enjoy the same benefit for two consecutive years while the Pochury community “got none during the same period even when the government guidelines provided for sharing of the 8% among the 3 tribes squarely and alternately.”
Further, the union said, a tribe getting this benefit for two consecutive years, also means that they have enjoyed 16% of the quota while during the same period Pochury “enjoyed 0%.”
“When such discrimination is so evident in its implementation as shown above, where is the so-called benefit of 8% reservation for Pochury tribe? Is reservation policy not aimed at addressing socio-economic inequality among the different sections of the society?” the union queried.
“It is so unimaginable that new policies, whenever modified and re-introduced, are deliberately manipulated to suit the claims and interests of the major communities. Couldn’t the major tribes have considered giving the tribe with the least population to avail the first benefit when a new policy based on population was introduced in 2009?”
However, a press release from the PSU said today, in the new roster system the Chakhesang, “by virtue of having the largest population,” had a DSP while the Zeliang and the Pochury had none. “In 2010, the same benefit was extended to Chakhesang yet again in the form of EAC (Zeliang- DSP, Pochury-nil) which means in the 3-year period (2008, 2009, 2010), under the BT quota: Chakhesang had availed 4 Gazetted posts (2 EAC, 2 DSP): Zeliang 3 Gazetted posts (1 EAC, 2 DSP); Pochury- nil,” the PSU said.
The press release was appended by PSU president Vikuolie Janry. The union has sought clarifications from the Personnel & Administrative Reforms department and the Nagaland Public Service Commission concerning the 2010 NCS/NPS and Allied Services Examination. When it was advertised by the NPSC, the PSU said, reservation of seats for Backward Tribes was according to the P&AR department’s notification dated July 23, 2008.
The notification said “...25% of all categories of both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted posts under the state government shall be reserved for the persons belonging to the 6 (six) tribes of four districts of Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire and Longleng, i.e., Chang, Khiamniungan, Konyak, Phom, Sangtam and Yimchunger.” The “balance 8%” of all categories, both Gazetted and Non-Gazetted posts was to be reserved for the Chakhesang, Pochury and Zeliang.
The PSU said “The notification clearly provides for having two rosters, one each for Gazetted and Non-gazetted posts. And all appointments shall conform to the roster until all the 200 points have been exhausted, after which the roster shall resume from the beginning. However, the result of the NCS/NPS & Allied Services 2010 indicates that there were 3 different rosters, one each for EAC, DSP and non-gazetted posts which clearly is a violation of the guidelines as laid down by the government through their notification. Are EAC and DSP not of the same class and grade, which are commonly categorised as ‘gazetted’ posts?”
When the result was declared on October 5, 2011 for the NCS/NPS & Allied Services, 2010 exam, the PSU said, it “benefited Chakhesang” (EAC) yet again and the Zeliang got a DSP “bypassing Pochury for unexplained reason.”
The union has demanded a response from the departments in concern how a particular tribe can enjoy the same benefit for two consecutive years while the Pochury community “got none during the same period even when the government guidelines provided for sharing of the 8% among the 3 tribes squarely and alternately.”
Further, the union said, a tribe getting this benefit for two consecutive years, also means that they have enjoyed 16% of the quota while during the same period Pochury “enjoyed 0%.”
“When such discrimination is so evident in its implementation as shown above, where is the so-called benefit of 8% reservation for Pochury tribe? Is reservation policy not aimed at addressing socio-economic inequality among the different sections of the society?” the union queried.
“It is so unimaginable that new policies, whenever modified and re-introduced, are deliberately manipulated to suit the claims and interests of the major communities. Couldn’t the major tribes have considered giving the tribe with the least population to avail the first benefit when a new policy based on population was introduced in 2009?”
