NTUCT files RTI on police recruitment 

File Photo: A police recruitment test in progress. (Image for representational purposes only) 

Morung Express News 
Dimapur | February 12

The Naga Tribal Union Chümoukedima Town (NTUCT) filed an RTI application today seeking information on appointments made in the Nagaland Police. NTUCT President, Lhousito Khro told The Morung Express that the application was submitted to the Nagaland PHQ, Kohima today.

Khro maintained that NTUCT will prevent the upcoming training scheduled from February 14 at the Nagaland Armed Police Training Centre and Police Training School if the government does not respond positively to its demand to weed out alleged “backdoor appointments.”

The NTUCT, in a press statement on February 10, had questioned how nearly 1200 appointments were made while the number of candidates selected through “open recruitment” was only 208.

 It added that except 208 candidates, who were selected through an open recruitment rallies, “no other candidates will be allowed to take part in the upcoming training.”

The authority concerned “must satisfactorily justify as to when and where such a large majority of the recruits were selected through open recruitment rally,” it said, while asking the government to “clarify and justify with facts and figures.”

“We demand the government to postpone the training and cancel the appointment of recruits who were appointed through backdoor. If the government doesn’t respond positively we’ll go ahead as planned,” Khro said.