Dimapur, Dec. 13 (EMN): The Nagaland Govt. Registered Class-1 Contractors’ Union (NGRC-1 CU) has affirmed its demand to set up a ‘powerful’ Lokayukta in Nagaland. The organisation has demanded that the bill be passed in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly’s winter session.
This was the message in a press release the union issued on Wednesday: As pointed out by the Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organisation (NVCO) and the Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (Acaut), the NGRC-1 CU will not accept certain provisions such as prior sanction / prosecution sanction in the Lokayukta bill which would be making ‘Lokayukta a toothless tiger.’
The NGRC-1 CU has also strongly demanded revocation of the Nagaland government’s memorandum of 26th October 2017 which scrapped all class-III posts (except for secretariat assistants) from the purview of the NPSC, according to the updates. Further, reversion to class-III posts (grade pay of INR 2800 and above) to the NPSC is another demand.
The union stated that scrapping the class-III posts from the purview of the NPSC was ‘simply inviting backdoor appointments which cannot be tolerated as it puts the thousands of public service aspirants into “serious depression.”’
The contractors’ statement also came with updates about an advent Christmas programme they had. Social activist Kezhokhoto Savi was speaker for the Dec. 12 programme, it was informed. “The waiting for the arrival of Jesus begins with the virtue of hope...During the advent we celebrate the hope we have in the present because Jesus is in the midst of life’s pain, injustice, and the unknown. We also place our hope in the day when Jesus will return again and his kingdom will bring in a time of complete healing and light. Jesus birth was not ordinary,” the press release quoted him as having said during the event.
