ACAUT meets CS on backdoor appointments

EMN Dimapur, June 27 The ACAUT team met State Chief Secretary and submitted a petition to act against backdoor appointments in the Rural Development Department on June 26. The Chief Secretary was also briefed as to why Staff Selection Board (SSB) for the State be constituted to centrally conduct exams for all those posts not under the purview of NPSC open examination. Later, a copy of the petition was also submitted to the State Vigilance Commissioner for filing of case. Media Cell, ACAUT in a statement today said, highlighting backdoor appointments in the RD department is only a beginning, and cautioned the PIOs of the department to furnish true and correct information on any queries asked by the ACAUT. “Any wrong furnishing of information may not only attract the attention of the Chief Information Commissioner but lead to ACAUT publicly questioning the PIOs on such.” The petition demanded termination of all backdoor appointees in the Rural Development Department and said the bureaucratic and political class in the State have been willfully depriving the poor but meritorious young people of job and livelihood opportunities.All the 36 appointments were done willfully without notifying the NPSC at any point of time, thus, disallowing it to declare the posts for open competitive exam and selection of meritorious students, the petition said. “No appointment can be done without advertising the posts first, even for adhoc. There is a Supreme Court order which clearly says that any appointment, even Ad hoc made without advertisement is dismissible.” The petition demanded that officials or authorities guilty of backdoor appointment be prosecuted and that by a Government notification, all the departments should compulsorily reveal their vacancies every year and the NPSC compulsorily conduct exams for such. The petition also demanded the State Vigilance Commission to register a case against backdoor appointment. ACAUT said it will not furnish any other details, except RTI documents to the State Vigilance Commission as it is upto the investigating agency to get all the details, including Supreme Court rulings on backdoor appointments, and prosecute accordingly.