DIMAPUR — The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has expressed happiness over its long- standing demand to lower the marks of the viva-voce component from the 12.5 % to 5% of the total marks, been fulfilled through a recent amendment of the Nagaland State Staff Selection Board (NSSB) Regulation 2020, which was notified by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms department (Administrative Reforms Branch) on Tuesday.
The federation in a press release said the amendment will greatly benefit thousands of aspirants seeking employment from the state government in various Group C posts, by minimising the chance for manipulation by the authorities concerned.
More so, the principle behind the setting up of NSSB will be upheld by providing a level playing field for all the aspirants and will go a long in promoting meritocracy and also ensuring that ‘the right person is recruited for the right job,’ it stated.
The Federation conveyed gratitude to the government under the able leadership of the Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio for exhibiting the political will for positive change and affirmatively responding to the call of the younger generation for transparency and equal opportunity during the recruitment process to various government jobs.
“The board must be reminded that the Federation will continue to keep a close watch on the functioning of the board and also the process of conducting the examinations. It will not tolerate any attempt to mar the examinations with manipulation by any individual whatsoever,” NSF stated.
Demands re-examination of CTSE
Meanwhile, the NSF has demanded for re-examination of the CTSE (Civil Engineering stream) in-order to provide a level playing field to all the aspiring candidates.
The federation in a representation to chairman of Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) informed that it had received a written complaint from the aspirants of Civil Engineering stream who sat for the recently held Combined Technical Examination (CTSE) conducted by NPSC.
As per the NSF, the complaint mentioned that there were 76% of questions from CESE 2022 to CTSE 2023; 177 questions copy pasted from degree to diploma for which the diploma exam had been duly cancelled; eight questions in degree paper-I were out of the syllabus.
The NSF also questioned the sincerity and integrity of the board members of NPSC and all others involved in the conduct of the examination. “It is totally unbecoming of the commission responsible for the recruitment of the top bureaucrats and technocrats to allow for lacunas to creep in the question papers over and over again. The process of conducting the various examinations should be properly streamlined and such grievous errors should not be committed again in the future,” NSF stated.
