Dimapur, Feb 22 (MExN): Close on the heels of the recent contract lecturer appointment standoff, there is an ‘under surface’ spate being waged between the Home department’s Ad-hoc LDA appointees and LDAs selected through last year’s Nagaland Public Services Commission (NPSC) examinations.
In a reported judgment passed by the Kohima Bench of Guwahati High Court around March-April last year, 63 NPSC-selected LDA candidates have been barred from receiving formal appointment to the Home department owing to complaint case filed against them by Ad-hoc LDA appointees, already serving in the department. Information of the stay order from the Guwahati High Court could be received only much later, even while the passed candidates were waiting for their appointments unaware that they have been barred. The candidates were ‘complaining’ that they were still yet to receive their appointment orders even after a lapse of five months after 2006’s NPSC examination results were declared (October 12, 2006).
Interestingly, it is learnt that the stay order was passed around March-April, 2006 even before the results and sources speculate that the Ad-hoc employees filed for a stay order following the department dispatching the requisition i.e., LDA posts required to the NPSC. 63 LDA posts (21 for Backward Tribe and 42 for General Category).
It is understood that the requisition sent to the commission called for either laying-off the Ad-hoc employees or eject a considerable number of them.
The irony is that the NPSC-selected LDA candidates were unaware of the complaint case filed – or the subsequent stay order to that effect – against them by their “counterparts” already serving in the Home department, until a few days later when fellow NPSC-passed candidates came up with the news. Also, adding more irony to the development, the candidates are in the dark why the Home department’s Ad-hoc LDA appointees decided to file a case without any apparent reason. “I don’t know” said an aggrieved candidate from Kohima, when queried of the reason the complaint was filed, and subsequently the stay order passed.
“Till now, even after five months we have not even received appointment orders, although we have cleared the NPSC examinations for LDA” lamented a candidate and asserted to fight for the rights of the aggrieved lot. Legal experts are being consulted for further action, he informed.
Meanwhile, all candidates selected as LDAs under the Home department under both General and Backward Tribe category, through the NPSC, 2006 edition are asked to attend an emergency meeting to discuss matter, specifically to the non- appointment. The meeting will be held February 24 at the local ground, Kohima at 12 noon. The selected candidates are requested to attend the meeting without fail, informed a note on behalf of the aggrieved candidates. The phone numbers 9862242260/9436403511 are to be contacted for information.
