Naga Tribal Union Chumoukedima Town (NTUCT) has served an ultimatum on the police department to cancel 934 candidates “recruited without open recruitment”. In an ultimatum addressed to the DGP Nagaland, NTUCT president Lhousito Khro demanded that the remaining appointments be cancelled except 206 advertised posts and conduct general recruitment for 934 posts including 400 remaining vacancies as admitted by deputy CM in the recent concluded Assembly, failing which the union would take its own course of action.
NTUCT expressed dismay over state government’s “failure” to resolve the issue during the Assembly session. The union also stated the documents it received during a meeting called by DGP on February 21, 2020 had no relevance to the present imbroglio. NTUCT said that those documents pertained to constitution of committees to look into the random affairs of the department and for streamlining administrative/appointment irregularities.
On the claims of empowering unit commanders under Nagaland Police Manual, NTUCT said all departments have designated officials empowered to make appointments strictly in accordance with law by following recruitment process. However, it said the police department was exempted from making appointments without following recruitment process neither under the Constitution nor in any state statutory Rules and Regulations.
On the justification of the department through RTI reply dated February 24, 2020 that the non advertised posts recruited from Districts DEF included years of accumulated back log vacancies, the NTUCT said “the fact that there was no advertisement for general recruitment” was the issue, adding that unless all the vacancies were advertised it would not relent or compromise with options and assertions made by the department.