The Rising People’s Party (RPP) said that the “anti-student action of the government” would be remembered by all right-thinking people in the days to come.
By Imna Longchar, TFM Nagaland Correspondent
The Rising People’s Party (RPP), Nagaland, on Thursday reiterated that the October 28 advertisement issued by the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) in various local dailies for filling up of ninety-nine posts was as per the order of the High Court, Kohima Bench, issued on October 5, directing the NPSC to carry out the recruitment process as per the service rules without delay.
RPP in a press statement said that the order fulfills one point of the PIL application which states, “To direct the respondents (state government) to immediately advertise the posts mentioned in the impugned OM dated 16th July 2021 …which comes within the purview of the NPSC.”
Secondly, after the PIL prayed for the court, “To issue a writ or orders…directing the Respondents (state government) to immediately make the NSSB functional within a period of 1 month”. The state government wisely decided beforehand, that is, before the court is to give its final verdict, to constitute the NSSB and issued a notification dated 4th October 2021 advertising the posts of Chairman and members of NSSB, said RPP.
While the government’s action may seem laudable now, the RPP stated that it would like to make it clear to the student community that the state government had no intention of functionalizing the NSSB whose formation it had promptly notified in June 2020.
Instead, the government cleverly took advantage of the demand for 45% reservation to make a case for non-functionalization of the body where there was none, and deceitfully issued a notification dated July 16, 2021, it also stated.
“The 16th July notification would have allowed Ministers and Advisors to make thousands of backdoor appointments at the expense of innocent students. By suspending the notification on 1st September 2021, the hon’ble judges of the court saved a generation of students from becoming victims of the state government’s vote-bank/tribal politics”, RPP added.
The RPP further said that this “anti-student action of the government” would be remembered by all right-thinking people in the days to come.