State government has reminded all departments and all appointing authorities to strictly abide by, and follow the existing government’s reservation policy while making any direct appointment against any post.
As per existing reservation policy of, 25% of all posts/ vacancies under the state government, which are to be filled through direct recruitment, are reserved for the six backward tribes of Konyak, Phom, Sangtam. Chang, Yimchunger and Khiamniungan, whereas 4% are similarly reserved for Zeliang and Chakhesang tribes, and 2% each are reserved for Pochury tribe and Sumi tribe of Kiphire District, thus making the total of reservation to 37%.
The government stated that there shall be a specific provision in every department’s service rule to the effect that all appointments to the service shall be made in accordance with the existing reservation policy of the state government.
Any department’s service rule, which did not contain such stipulation or specific provision, the concerned department has been directed to immediately initiate proposal for incorporation of such a provision in the department’s service rule. It stated that the process of such incorporation by amendment of the department’s service rule should be completed before the end of October, 2015.
Govt on roster system
In partial modification of an earlier notification regarding instructions for operating the roster system for implementation of reservation for Backward Tribes (BTs) in the state, the state government has directed that the following system shall be followed with immediate effect:
1. If no candidate is available from a particular BT whose turn has come on the roster, the vacancy shall not be filled by a candidate belonging to any other tribe. In other words, there shall be a ban on de-reservation of vacancies reserved for BTs in direct recruitment.
2. If no candidate from a particular BT is available for filling up the vacancy earmarked for that BT in the roster, such vacancy shall be treated as “backlog vacancy”.
It stated that in the subsequent recruitment, the “backlog vacancy” shall be announced for recruitment along with other vacancies (called the current vacancies).
The current vacancies shall be treated as one group and the “backlog vacancies” as a separate group.
Such “backlog vacancies” shall be filled up by candidates belonging to the particular BT(s) for which they were earmarked in the roster earlier. This process of filling up of “backlog vacancies” shall be carried forward, if necessary, till all such vacancies are filled up by candidates belonging to the particular BT(s) for which they have been earmarked. In short, if the vacancy belonging to a particular BT cannot be filled during any year, the backlog will be earned over to the next year for recruitment as a backlog quota, and this will be carried on till it is filled up by a candidate from that BT.