Dimapur, October 28 (MExN): A day after the Nagaland State Public Commission (NPSC) advertisement for filling up 99 posts was issued, the Rising People’s Party (RPP) on October 28 seemed unimpressed with the move, as it shared pertinent points leading up to the announcement of the posts.
The RPP noted that the NPSC's announcement is as per the October 5, 2021 order of the High Court, Kohima bench, directing the NPSC to carry out the recruitment process as per the service rules without delay.
The RPP stated that the Court order fulfilled one of the points of the PIL application under 1 (g) which states “To direct the respondents (state government) to immediately advertise the posts mentioned in the impugned OM dated 16th July 2021 …which comes within the purview of the NPSC.”
The PIL was filed by the Party on August 31 earlier this year.
Further, the PIL had also sought the Court “To issue a writ or orders…directing the Respondents (state government) to immediately make the NSSB functional within a period of 1 month.”
The RPP alleged that before the court gave its final verdict on the same, the state government “wisely decided” beforehand, to constitute the NSSB and issued a notification on October 4, 2021 advertising the posts of Chairman and members of NSSB.
“While the government’s action may seem laudable now, the RPP would like to make it clear to the student community that the state government had no intention of functionalizing the NSSB whose formation it had promptly notified in June 2020,” the Party stated.
“Instead the government cleverly took advantage of the demand for 45% reservation to make a case for non-functionalization of the body where there was none, and deceitfully issued a notification dated 16th July 2021,” it further alleged.
Terming the move ‘anti-student’, the RPP said that the “anti-student action of the government will be remembered by all right thinking people in the days to come.”
It further stated that the July 16 notification would have allowed Ministers and Advisors to make thousands of backdoor appointments at the expense of innocent students.
“By suspending the notification on 1st September 2021, the hon’ble judges of the court saved a generation of students from becoming victims of the state government’s vote-bank/tribal politics,” the RPP noted.
