Few central services officers from NE in Centre

In an informal chat with Nagaland Post in his Nagaland House-based office here, the Resident Commissioner New Delhi, Jyoti Kalash, senior IAS officer of Nagaland cadre, opine that “serious efforts should be made by the State Governments of the North-East including Nagaland to take up matter with the Union Ministry of Personnel and Administrative Reforms etc to make definite provisions for the officials of the North-East origin at various levels to get ‘national opportunity’ to make the various Ministries/Departments of the Government of India.
          As per the policy of the government of India, only cadre officers join the government of India on deputation either from IAS, IRS or IPS and that too by outsider officers   belonging to their respective states.
  Statistics indicate that there are very few Naga/Mizo/Manipur/Sikkim/Tripura/ Meghalaya/Assam officers who have come on deputation to Government of India as majority of such officers do not want to leave their home states.
This results in lack of experience and national exposure to such officers of the N-E origin, observed Kalash.
“If the Government of India comes up with the policy to bring officers from state services including lower cadre/s from secretariat services this will help such officers in improving their overall performance and their outlook when they get back to their representative states after completion of their tenure in the Centre. Such policy will have salutary effect in the better and effective administration of the State Governments of the North-East including Nagaland. Further, this will also promote national integration in a much better coordinated way.”