Notification to ‘partially lift’ appointments blatant misconduct: RPP

Rising People’s Party (RPP) has termed DPAR’s July 16 notification on “partial lifting of appointments” that empowered 76 departments to conduct departmental exams for 1,517 posts as the most blatant and audacious misconduct of the PDA government. 

Referring to chief minister Neiphiu Rio’s call to education department “to equip students to face the world with confidence and help realise their potential” during a function to felicitate 50 meritorious students as wonderful words, RPP vice-president Dr Abeny Khuvung and Rising Youth president Zhokhoi Chuzho alleged that instead of helping students actually realise their potential after studies through fair means, the government was facilitating backdoor appointments.

They accused the government of speaking in forked tongue and held it directly responsible for destroying the lives of thousands of meritorious students. And while the harassment meted out to its own employees with regard to threat to withhold salary still persisted, they said the State government had come out with another notification that destroyed the concept of meritocracy.  

Mentioning that the notification had also proposed age relaxation for a period of one year with effect from April 22, 2020, the RPP leaders said it meant that the relaxation was only till April 22, 2021, which did not benefit even a single student because notification on exam had not been issued since 2020. 

They said age relaxation should have been from the date of issue of notification (July 16) covering the entire sequence of examination to be conducted, till result was declared. 

“This notification is not only irrational but stupid as well,” they added. 

Claiming that RPP stood for student community, the duo demanded that all the 1,517 declared posts should be brought under the purview of Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) and Nagaland Staff Selection Board (NSSB) with immediate effect. 

They said there was no logical reason to delay conduct of exams under NSSB, adding that RPP concluded that the government had fooled the entire student community. 

They lamented that the so-called unity government of Nagaland had no heart for its students and its policies reflect this.