DIMAPUR, JUNE 5 (MExN): The Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) today alleged that from 2014 to 2016, the Nagaland State Department of Health and Family Welfare had “recruited 804 candidates mostly on direct appointment i.e without following proper selection process and posted at all eleven districts in Nagaland.”
The NVCO informed that of this, 319 candidates/employees were allegedly found to be “appointed without vacancy and without government approval.” The NVCO based these allegations on replies to an RTI application filed on April 22, 2016 with the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare.
The NVCO informed that the PIO of the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare had furnished the list of appointment orders of Grade – III & Grade – IV made from 2014-2016 (till date). Basing its findings on the list of appointments, the NVCO alleged that a lot of the appointments “were made within a little more than two years time and all these appointments include backdoor, without vacancy, regularized without vacancy, with and without government approval and against retirement, etc.”
The NVCO informed that the department had “terminated more than hundred employees just in one district whose appointments are without vacancy or without sanctioned posts.” However, it alleged that the department is “still continuing the same blunder and illegality which is also amounting to exploiting the livelihood and career of citizens given them false hope to the extent of regularisation.”
It demanded that the concerned administrative head/competent authority take stern actions against irregular appointments as per the Government of Nagaland O.M No: AR-3/Gen-174/2007(pt) dated January 13, 2010.
The NVCO meanwhile extended its support to the Nagaland Public Rights Awareness and Action Forum (NPRAAF) in their protest against the Department of Tourism and Food & Civil Supplies with a demand to cancel alleged backdoor appointments.
The NVCO further informed that it had submitted an RTI application dated May 23, 2016 to the PIO of Food & Civil Supplies seeking information on records of Kerosene allocation in the State (AOD as well as MD) including district-wise allocation for the last five years till date.
