5 Naga tribes' bodies reject job quota review panel composition
Reviewing the Aug 6 decision of the state cabinet on the issue of the Nagaland Reservation Policy for backward tribes of the state in Kohima on Saturday, the meeting unanimously reiterated its opposition to the composition of the RRC that includes members from CSOs. The cabinet on Aug 6 constituted a seven-member RRC, which included three members from CSOs.
The meeting reaffirmed the consensus decision of having an independent commission to review the job reservation policy as decided in the June 3 meeting between the CoRRP and the state govt.
Stating that the decision of the state cabinet to give the RRC six months to submit its recommendations is agreeable, it, however, said any delay or extension of its tenure will be totally unacceptable.
CoRRP member secretary GK Zhimomi, in a release received on Sunday, said the state govt will have to immediately implement the recommendations of the RRC upon its submission without waiting for the completion of the census.
"If the state govt remains adamant on interlinking the RRC outcome with the next census, then the backward tribe reservation must be suspended till such time," the meeting said.
It warned that if there is no satisfactory or nil response, the five tribal bodies and their frontal organisations, along with their sub-units, will resort to non-participation in all state govt functions, including the Independence Day events.
The CoRRP has been demanding that the 48 years of indefinite job quota for seven backward tribes of Nagaland, introduced in 1977 with an initial duration of 10 years, either be scrapped or the remaining unreserved quota be reserved exclusively for the five tribes.
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