Dimapur, November 18 (MExN): Government departments and authorities should be bound by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms Department rules and not misuse or manipulate the rules, the Combined Technical Association of Nagaland (CTAN) said on Friday.
In a press release issued through its Media Cell, the CTAN referred to two government orders (N.HFW (A)COVID-19/APPT-13/17/2020 and cabinet vide NO. CAB/2013 dated May 26, 2022) pertaining to appoints made on contract or engagement basis which it said are ‘purely on temporary basis.’
According to it, contractual appointments are meant for one year service to fill the gap of those posts in departments which are vacated due to promotion/retirements/death etc., so as to keep the office functioning until the time when those vacancies are being requisitioned, advertised and examinations are conducted through NPSC for those vacancies.
The appointment letters/offer letters given to those contract employees clearly mentions about their temporary status for just one year, it said, while maintaining that to contract service and work experience cannot be used as an ‘extraordinary provision,’ leveraging people appointed on contract and depriving the rest of the aspirants.
Out of the many departments in Nagaland, every department is bound to be limited within the P&AR rules laid down for NPSC and there is no existing rule which says, “extra marks or bonus” for people on contract basis, it further stated.
The CTAN urged the concerned authority to be bound by the P&AR rules and “not come up with unnecessary special drive recruitment in the already confused NPSC.”
