Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees’ Association (CANSSEA) has come out in support of the demand of Nagaland Civil Services Association (NCSA) for encadrement of posts in the rank of principal secretary and commissioner & secretary.
CANSSEA in a letter addressed to the State chief secretary signed by its president Dr. K Solo stated that Nagaland Civil Service (NCS) is a premier cadred service, which had been serving meticulously for more than fifty years with dignity and honour.
CANSSEA said the 73rd and 74th Amendments Acts 1992 (Article 243) emphasizes mass participation with special thrust on women’s participation in the decision making process besides widening the scope of democratic decentralization at the grass-root level.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the quintessence of the achievement is attributed wholly to the dynamism of the NCS officers who have inherited immense power of integration, assimilation and manifestation by virtue of their long association in the affairs of the people at the lowest rung in the society,” the association said. It also stated that NCS officers had demonstrated unqualified ability to hold cadre with high responsibility in the trajectory of transparent and clean governance.
CANSSEA said of late, the central government had been concentrating on the new concept of decentralized planning and that Article 243 ZD pinpointed a consolidated, realistic and sound plan at the district level on the basis of the plans prepared by the panchayats and municipal/town councils.
Stating that Nagaland too had shown relative progress and salutary spade works of development planning at the segregated level, CANSSEA said such achievements had become a possible because of the vertical involvement, the knack to visualize things in right perspective and also the power of assessment and reasoning to convince the people with aptitudinal approach.
“To become more specific, the NCS officers are, by no way short, deficient and unintelligible to be encadred to hold the post of higher rank in the hierarchy,” the association said.
The association also pointed out that in the mid-seventies, a few conferred IAS officers coming from the lowest cadre of NCS had been sent on deputation to the Centre, where they had shown extra-ordinary zeal, sheer dedication and determination at the very high level, worthy of appreciation and applaud.
The association said if these “basically NCS cadres officers” were capable of proving their worth, there should be no room for doubt that the present NCS officers were equally capable of holding high posts.
“In fact, our NCS officers are task-masters and are never lagging behind other cadre officers as far as attitude, approach, amenability, resourcefulness, acuemanship and craft are concerned,” CANSSEA added.
Citing another example, CANSSEA said a Naga officer in the mid-seventies holding the cadre of EAC, got selected to All India Service Cadre through UPSC, and was presently in the rank of principal secretary outside Nagaland.
The association also said that another Naga officer who was neither from IAS nor Central Group ‘A’ or Group ‘B’ service, but from other service, had retired from the post of principal secretary and commissioner, Nagaland. CANSSEA further said there were instances where a non-IAS officer in Jharkand rose to the rank of second principal secretary to chief minister, while another service officer in Uttar Pradesh rose to the highest civil rank of cabinet secretary.
“We feel that the demand for encadrement of a principal secretary is most genuine and logical which may be conceded to urgently causing morale of the NCS officers to remain in high spirit and good cheers,” the association sadi.
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