CPO, WSH agree to police recruitment with caveat

Chakhroma Public Organization (CPO) and the Western Sumi Hoho (WSH) at a joint meeting with the home commissioner and other high-ranking officials at Nagaland Secretariat Kohima on October 23, 2025, agreed to accept the decision of the government to conduct recruitment with tribal reservation based on 2011 census with the proviso that future recruitments would be carried out based on the new census scheduled for 2027.
CPO through its media cell informed that at the meeting, the home commissioner, Abhijit Sinha, acknowledged the concerns raised by CPO and WSH which had earlier objected to placing of the districts of Chumoukedima and Niuland in the open category for the upcoming police recruitment for 1000+ vacancies.
According to media cell, Sinha explained the government’s inability to oblige the request of CPO and WSH in the absence of official data regarding tribe-wise census for the newly-created districts.
He also pointed out to the tribal leaders the Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench comment regarding the recruitment in the excise department that “the rules of the game cannot be changed when the game has started”, adding that the game, in this instant case, police recruitment process has already started with over 17,000 applicants registering for the vacancies till date.
The leaders two tribal bodies appreciated the position of the government and iterated that it was never their intention to oppose that decisions of the government.
However, they said that tribal leaders, they were compelled to bring to the attention of the government the concerns raised by their respective tribes in the two districts.
Meanwhile, in a separate representation to the home commissioner, the CPO pointed out the practice of applicants permanently residing in recognized villages in the foothills, who are required to produce NOC from their native villages to prove that they are Nagas by blood, was inconvenient and impractical considering that their forebears have been living in the foothills since several generations back.
CPO said the authorities in the native villages do not know many of the applicants and hesitate to issue NOC for the crucial documents such as ST and Indigenous Inhabitant Certificates.
Further, CPO said an apprehension was created in the minds of the applicants that their indigeneity of their present villages in the foothills would be compromised by their nativity which invariably is in the district of Kohima.
CPO has, therefore, appealed to the government to do away with the requirement to produce the NOC from the native villages considering that the leaders of their present villages have been appointed by the government of Nagaland after due diligence.
Officials who attended the meeting included Commissioner Nagaland Thejawhelie Gregory, ADGP RP Kikon, ADG (Adm) Videlalie Zashumo, Special Secretary (Home) Limasunep, Member Secretary Masudong, among others.