Dimapur, Oct. 1 (EMN): A students’ organisation has demanded from the government of Nagaland videotaping facilities for interviews conducted by the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC). The Lotha Students’ Union (LSU) issued a copy of a representation addressed to the governor of Nagaland on Sunday.
The representation began: ‘The union being very much well aware of the current system in regard to NPSC which is the highest authority for selection of civil service candidate in the state where the governor of the state appoints the chairman and members of NPSC. As such the union seeks the highest accountability and transparency in the system of NPSC where the meritorious candidates are going to serve the highest office position in the state.’
However, the LSU stated, the recently-modified system of the NPSC ‘does not protect merit because of its highly manipulative system.’
In this regard the union after employing RTI found out an imbalance in the result of 2015 NPSC (Civil Service), the representation asserted.
“The union express deep concern over such imbalance crisis will further deteriorate the morale of the youth and harmony in the administration,” the students stated.
The union has placed a number of following points of demand before the governor for his intervention. The demands included the following: ‘Complete video clippings in viva-voce be in place; allocation of maximum and minimum marks to be given in viva-voce must be strictly followed; the qualification and criteria to be chairman as well as the members of the board should follow the system of UPSC not as state laid down rules.’
Further, the LSU has demanded that the total marks secured by the candidate during the written examination ‘should not be brought to the notice of board members’ till the completion of the viva-voce, and ‘should bring into notice only while framing the result.’
‘Any examination conducted by the NPSC should be completed within a period of calendar year. The union therefore urges early intervention and necessary action from the honourable governor of Nagaland,’ the LSU added.
