Contract job ban: ‘Ban not enough, make it common policy’

Workers want ban implemented totally 

The Dimapur unit of an organization called the All Nagaland District Ministerial Association (ADMSA) has asked the government of Nagaland and departments in concern to implement in totality the recent ban on contract/ad-hoc appoints. However, they have expressed doubts that ‘anomalies’ within the departments when it comes to appointments would be resolved  unless the government makes a policy.

The organization issued a press release to the media on Monday stating strict implementation of the ban.

The association acknowledged what it called the “recent revelation on appointment anomalies” in the department of Health & Family Welfare by the Nagaland Voluntary Consumer Organization through the Right to Information. It also noted the “immediate intervention: of the Health & Family Welfare  department and its minister and “the speedy response of the P&AR through office memorandum with modification of its pre-existing rules on appointment norms “banning all kinds of contract/ casual/temporary/work-charge” workers.

The Dimapur group appealed to the government of Nagaland and the departmental authorities to strictly implement the ban ‘in spirit and in principal’ in all government departments of the state.

However, the ANDMSA expressed reservations that anomalies in departmental appointments would be resolved fully unless there was a statutory policy.

The association stated: “However the ANDMSA are of the view that the Departmental appointment anomalies could not be resolved until and unless recruitment policy is totally changed into common recruitment policy as such, and all kinds of advertisement / recruitments should come through NPSC for grade III- LDA and above. Since the practice of departmental examinations does not prove much justice to the merit educated un-employee youth of Nagas.”

The members of the ANDMSA have therefore urged the government of Nagaland, Personnel & Administrative Reforms, Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC), and the committee that frames the district and directorate service rules: grade-III LDA and above recruitment should be openly advertised through the NPSC with common recruitment policy and service rules. The common recruitment policy and common service rules must apply to all the government departments, the association stated.

The matter is to be pursued ‘immediately. so that the existing problems faced by the district and directorial ministerial employee like absence of common service rules and its benefit, inequality of pay band and structure, non-adherence of en-carderment (sic) policy, non uniformity in cadre structure, deformity in promotion and retention policy, non up-gradation and downsizing of head assistance (sic) post etc may be solved.’

In other matters, the ANDMS unit has convened an “emergency executive meeting” to be conducted on June 15. The meeting will be conducted at the Electrical Sub Division-I Office at the PWD junction at Midland in Dimapur town at 2:00pm, the association stated.

(Al Ngullie, June 13, 2016; Eastern Mirror)

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