Dimapur, November 18 : Seven associations of engineers, forestry graduates and veterinary doctors, of Nagaland have urged the State Government to reconsider and revoke the corrigendum related to NPSC adv No. NPSC/ADVT-1/04 Dated 26th October 2016 and open the posts reserved for Backward Tribes to all the candidates on the basis of merit in the upcoming examination at the earliest.
In a joint appeal to the Chief Secretary on Friday, the Graduate Electrical Engineers Association (GEEAN), Association of Mechanical Engineers Nagaland(AMEN), Unemployed Civil Engineers Association of Nagaland (UCEAN), Forestry Graduates Association of Nagaland (FGAN), Agriculture Engineers Graduate Association of Nagaland (AEGAN), ALL Nagaland Unemployed Veterinary Doctors Association (ANUVDA) and Electronics & Communication Engineers Association Nagaland (ECEAN) said the decision, as per the NPSC corrigendum, to reserve some of the posts reserved particularly for Backward Tribes is affecting the technical graduates of branches like Mechanical Engineering, E&C, IT, CS, Agriculture Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering and also Forestry graduates.
They also pointed out that in some of the branches like Mechanical, E&C, CS and IT, hardly any advertisement is given and added that the recent advertisement in NPSC (CTE) for one post giving it away to one particular backward tribe cannot be considered fair and transparent enough.
Informing that a representation was submitted to the Chief Secretary regarding the issue on November 4, 2016, copy which was given to the HoDs of the departments concerned, the associations said they are yet to receive any response so far.
As per the reservation policy order No. RCBT-5/87(pt-II) annexure B-I 125 point rooster table, the first vacancy is reserved for all indigenous inhabitants and only then comes the reservation for backward tribes, they stated. Referring to the reservation policy of the Government of Nagaland, the associations requested all the authorities concerned to follow/go as per the rules, reconsidering making those posts open to all in the upcoming CTE exam 2016. The order RCBT-5/87(pt-II) nowhere mentions that in case of only one vacancy it should be reserved for a backward tribe, they further pointed out.
