The Nagaland NET Qualified Forum (NNQF) has opposed the demand of the All Nagaland Government College Teachers’ Association (ANGCTA) for regularisation of all working guest, adhoc and contract teachers.
DIMAPUR — The Nagaland NET Qualified Forum (NNQF) has opposed the demand of the All Nagaland Government College Teachers’ Association (ANGCTA) for regularisation of all working guest, adhoc and contract teachers.
Terming the demand unacceptable in the context of Nagaland, the NNQF stated that the people of the state had already rejected such a move through protests against the attempted regularisation of 147 Assistant Professors and Librarians.
The forum maintained that the Nagaland Public Service Commission Combined Education Service Examination (NPSC CESE) must remain the sole recruitment mechanism for appointments to these posts, stating that “no individual can claim regular appointment to a public post by bypassing this process.”
“Regularisation of contractual appointments would undermine the sanctity of the NPSC, deprive thousands of NET, SET and Ph.D.-qualified aspirants of their constitutional right to compete, and erode public confidence in the recruitment system,” the NNQF stated in its memorandum.
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The forum argued that a blanket demand for regularisation of guest, adhoc and contract teachers across universities and colleges cannot be applied indiscriminately to government colleges in Nagaland, where recruitment is conducted through the NPSC CESE. It urged the state government to reject any such proposal.
The NNQF also demanded that the government terminate the services of the 147 contract Assistant Professors in the state and create sanctioned posts against them. It further urged the government to uphold the NPSC CESE as the sole recruitment mechanism for such positions.
The forum also called for a review of all contractual appointments made without public advertisements and demanded that future recruitments be conducted only through open advertisements and examinations conducted by the NPSC.
“The Forum also reserves its right to pursue all lawful remedies to ensure that appointments to public posts are made only through the prescribed recruitment process and in accordance with the principles of merit, transparency and equal opportunity,” the memorandum stated.