The Combined Technical Association of Nagaland (CTAN) on May 28, on the sidelines of its first general conference, declared that it had submitted a three-point memorandum to the state government.
As per the memorandum, the association demanded for technical interview marks to be reduced from 65 so that it will be in alignment with the NCS which has been reduced from 75 marks to 55 marks.
Secondly, CTAN stated in the memorandum that interviews for the Nagaland Staff Selection Board exam should be removed and there should be no interview just like the central Staff Selection Commission to maintain transparency.
It further demanded that NPSC should maintain an academic calendar like that of the UPSC and bring stability and set up rules and regulations.
The first general conference of Combined Technical Association of Nagaland (CTAN) on Saturday, under the theme “Equal opportunity in employment” with Kevechutso Doulo, Chairman of Nagaland Empowerment of People through Economic Development (NEPED) and Kezhokhoto Savi, President of Nagaland Voluntary Consumers’ Organization (NVCO), as resource persons.
Kevechutso Doulo, addressing the conference, said that there are too many organizations and unions in Naga society with too many “governments” but without governance.
He said that Naga society is fragmented into pieces even though everyone talks about unity. “When an issue arises, everyone becomes tribesmen first, forgetting to live as a Naga,” he said, while calling upon the people to come out of selfishness and greed. “Change should start from each and every individual in order to eradicate corruption in the society,” Doulo asserted.
Kezhokhoto Savi, meanwhile, said equal opportunity is a government policy to ensure that no employers discriminate against employees and job applicants. Savi, who is also an advocate and Assistant Professor at Kohima Law College, highlighted the constitutional provisions of ‘equality’ enshrined in Article 14 of the Indian Constitution and equality of opportunity related to public employment guaranteed in Article 16.
Savi also said that the fight against backdoor appointment is to mete out justice by ensuring “equality of appointment in matters of public appointment” and bring about positive change in public administration as well as achieve the goals laid down in the constitution.
He added that it is also a fight against all the employed who were recruited in various departments by-passing the constitutional provisions of public employment through the modus operandi of illegal, backdoor, contractual, ad hoc, casual, temporary, deputation and irregular modes of appointment in collusion between the bureaucracy and the politicians.
Earlier in the program held at the State Academy Hall in Kohima, CTAN Convenor, Meshenlo Kath delivered the welcome address, while AECEN president Kaqheto Kughutiilimi presented a statistical report, wherein he informed the gathering that CTAN has 2557 members.