State Service Assns. to intensify stir on induction of non-SCS to IAS cadre

Confederation of All Nagaland State Service Employees’ Association (CANSSEA), Federation of Nagaland State Engineering Service Association (FONSESA), Nagaland Secretariat Services Association (NSSA), Nagaland Finance & Accounts Services Association (NF&ASA) and Nagaland In-Service Doctors’ Association (NIDA) have launched second phase of peaceful resentment in the form of poster campaigns across all government offices and public places within the state headquarters Kohima on the recommendations of the core committee & action committee (CC&AC).
In a circular, CC&AC media cell informed that the phase-II agitation has been launched in view of the recent convening of the screening committee for selection of non-SCS officers into the IAS on the September 25, 2025, which it said was “in total disregard” to the various representations submitted to the government.
The service associations declared that the select list for IAS selection, which had been finalised by the screening committee without restoring the vacancy circular dated March 10, 2025, was “totally unacceptable and without merit.”
They reminded that numerous representations had been submitted to the government since the day the vacancy circular had been withdrawn and replaced by the government by a subsequent and modified vacancy circular thereby opening up the avenue for IAS inductions even to those officers who had not been appointed through the NPSC.
The association stated that move to usher in officers recruited from outside the NPSC into a premier service such as the IAS had all the malafide intentions, setting a precedent for such intending officers in future. “This has been glaringly proved when the Screening was held under the shadow of a peaceful protest on the 25th September 2025 which the undersigned Associations had objected since it was being held without addressing our demands,” they said.
The service associations described as “unfortunate development” the political interference in the selection of non-SCS officers into the IAS.
Stating that merit begins from the mode of entry into service, they said the government instead sought to supersede merit over personal gratification in every imaginable form.
The associations said their objections were directed towards the government over its attempt to relegate merit to the backstage and selecting unmerited officers into the Nation’s most premier administrative post.
Therefore, in continuation of their phase-I resentment, the associations said they have initiated poster campaigns. They said subsequent democratic forms of agitation and resentment would be launched until the select list was withdrawn and the vacancy circular dated March 10, 2025 was restored in toto.