In the interest of the aspirants and considering the fact that Nagaland held the tag of being the state with highest unemployment rate in India, the Combined Technical Association of Nagaland (CTAN) has declared that it would never allow and compromise with the Health & Family Welfare’s (H&FW) department’s August 20, 2024 notification for special recruitment drive for 280 posts.
CTAN convener Meshenlo Kath and co-convener Kaqheto pointed out that the notification was a violation of NPSC Rule 9(4), which stated that all posts, both technical and non-technical carrying pay band of Rs 5,200-20,200, GP Rs 2,800/PM and above were to be requisitioned to NPSC for open exam, adding that it was also a violation of Article 16 of the Constitution.
Recalling H&FW department’s advertisement for temporary appointment for filling up vacancies and newly-created posts on August 4, 2020 clearly stated that all the appointments would be on temporary basis for 12 months or direct recruitment through NPSC, whichever was earlier, and the appointees would have no right to claim for regularisation of the temporary service on any ground whatsoever, they stressed that the matter required no further discussion, and insisted on timely and wise decision by the department for the welfare of the aspirants in Nagaland, particularly the medical aspirants.
Further, CTAN demanded cancellation of the notification (HFW (A) 10/34/2014/215) and requisition the posts of 96 medical officers, 41 junior specialists, 21 medical officers (AYUSH), five junior dental surgeons, six research scientists, one audiologist-cum-speech therapist, 129 staff nurses, six laboratory technicians, one audiology technician, 10 ECG technicians and 13 OT technicians to NPSC or NSSB as per vacancies of November 2, 2022.
They warned that failing to comply would their demand would compel them to chart their own course of action democratically from August 26, 2024.
NAN dismayed over special recruitment of 124 nurses
DIMAPUR, AUG 23 (NPN): Nursing Aspirants of Nagaland (NAN) have expressed dismay over the notification issued by the department of health and family welfare regarding ‘special recruitment drive’ inviting 124 nurses for regular posts of staff nurse.
In a press release, NAN asserted that the notification was “a testament to the degrading practice” that diminished the efforts of qualified aspiring nurses and the values of meritocracy and fair competition. Further, NAN affirmed the established norms of recruitment through NPSC, CTSE for the post of staff nurse by means of free and fair competition for all qualified nurses.
The nursing aspirants said that free and fair competition could be the only way that recruitment of government nurses be done without benefiting only a select few.
NAN offered to stand in solidarity with the Nagaland Medical Students Association (NMSA)’s demand for an equal, free and fair competition and transparent process of recruitment. The nursing aspirants maintained that special recruitment process that benefited a select few at the expense of the broader medical fraternity should be rescinded and done with.
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