• Youth group to watch job recruitment
• No ‘VIP quota’, no ‘VIP recommendation’
• Veiled warning to politicians
EMN
Dimapur, June 29
Obviously aware that in a state as Nagaland where backdoor appointments are not really a front door ceremony, a youth organization in Mokokchung has “advised” the district’s authorities to ensure that an upcoming recruitment does not come in from windows or any other door except through merit and qualification.
Among the list of caution that the organization, Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem, listed out for the administration on Monday, was against meddling from unscrupulous politicians, and the infamous, so-called “VIP quota” or “VIP recommendation”.The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem issued a press release on June 29 assuring that it would be ‘strictly’ monitoring the recruitment process. The organization said that any kind of ‘unfair means’ or pressures should be sternly checked.
The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem expressed appreciation that the district’s deputy commissioner declaring vacant posts in the Mokokchung district administrative set up and issued a public notice calling for candidates to fill up the posts.
The administration had invited applications for the posts of lower divisional assistants-bench assistants, a stenographer’s, three ‘Doubashi’ (runners), grade-IV posts for Kubolong, Tuli, Ongpangkong, and Mokokchung headquarters, a driver’s and one house keeper’s.
“The MTLT acknowledges that the district administration has taken appropriate step in ensuring free and fair selection process through the advertisement of the posts and maintaining transparency with regard to the screening process,’ the community organization said.
While encouraged to observe the “thousands of educated youths filling up the application to compete in the interview process,” the union made clear that ‘any kind of unfair means or pressures should be sternly checked’.
The organization has listed out a number of points for the administration to note while conducting the recruitment (verbatim):
• There should be strict adherence to the District Level Recruitment Board (DLRB) selection criteria.
• There should be no entertainment of VIP recommendation or VIP quota in any case.
• There should be no entertainment of any unscrupulous political interference.
The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem said it was “highly hopeful” that the candidates applying for the various vacancies would be selected ‘in complete fairness and transparency at all levels’.
“The MTLT will be strictly monitoring the whole interview process–be it written, oral or practical interviews for the said vacant posts. In the event of any unfair means being observed by, or reported to the Telongjem, the MTLT as a conscientious youth organization will take up the matter in all earnestness so that justice and fairness is maintained,” the youth organization said.
