Dimapur, February 5 (MExN): The Rising People’s Party (RPP) on Saturday took the Nagaland Directorate of Technical Education and the NPSC to task, over the departmental recruitment for 27 vacancies in the technical education department.
In a press release on Saturday, the RPP said that on January 31, it had written to the Technical Education Department requesting it to cancel its ongoing departmental recruitment drive and revoke the notification for the appointment of 16 posts of Lecturers, 8 posts of Demonstrators and 3 posts of Multi Tasking Staff (MTS) since out of the 27 posts advertised for recruitment, 21 posts fell within the purview of NPSC recruitment process.
However, in its reply to the RPP on February 1, the department through its Director stated that initially “All the posts as advertised in the newspapers have been requisitioned to the NPSC…”
“In support, the department furnished documentary evidence showing that 25 posts of Lecturers and 18 posts of Demonstrators were requisitioned to the NPSC for recruitment in the month of September and October 2021,” the RPP stated.
In this connection, the RPP said that “the Technical Education Department’s unstated justification is that since there was no action on the part of the NPSC, the department went ahead with the ‘temporary’ recruitment process.” The stand of the RPP is that under the garb of filling up posts, the department cannot exercise an illegality, especially as the posts of Lecturers and Demonstrators fall within the purview of NPSC recruitment process, it emphasized.
The party further claimed that it was “open knowledge that all departmental recruitment processes are farcical with the candidates already selected beforehand, and the conduct of written and interview tests are mere formalities to present the picture of ‘fair’ recruitment.”
Further stating that the High Court, on October 5, 2021, allowed the NPSC to conduct exams and the preliminary exams for NCS/NPS recruitment has been conducted already, the RPP stated that “There is no justification for the Technical Education Department to conduct a parallel examination unless the whole exercise is appoint to politically connected candidates, which unfortunately is the case, at the cost of deserving students.”
It also demanded that the NPSC should publicly clarify as to why 25 posts of Lecturers and 18 posts of Demonstrators were not advertised by the Commission. “If it cannot conduct even the simple job of issuing advertisements, then there’s no reason for the Commission to exist,” it contended.
The RPP went on to state that the candidates appearing for the so-called interview from February 7 to 9 would be doing so ‘at their own risk,’ while advising the “the not-so-politically connected candidates” that appearing for the interview would be a waste of time, money and energy.
