DIMAPUR — The Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) department has clarified to various articles/communications in local dailies and social media platforms about the appointment of two junior social and conservation officers (JSCO) namely H Agape Yepthomi and Avilie Nagi and subsequent termination of their contract appointment.
The department clarified that their appointment was purely on contract basis against NPSC requisition and the department had no intention to regularise their appointment whatsoever.
It stated that the department has been regularly requisitioning various categories of vacancies to the NPSC since its inception and the present contract appointment issue was done on June 6, 2016, with due clearance from competent authority against requisitioned post and not otherwise or other way around adding their contract had been extended yearly.
However, with the declaration of NPSC/ CTSE result on March 6, 2024, it stated that the department had processed to the government for termination of their contract service which was accepted March 12, 2024, and order issued accordingly by the government.
It further added that there was never any ulterior motive for such contract service appointment except on humanitarian ground for their life sustenance as qualified Naga citizen.
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