Nagaland to revoke order on regularisation of 147 contractual posts
Dimapur: The Nagaland govt will revoke the Dec 17, 2024, cabinet order for absorption or regularisation of 147 contractual assistant professors and librarians.
Nagaland higher education minister Temjen Imna Along said this to the Combined Technical Association Nagaland (CTAN) and the Nagaland NET Qualified Forum (NNQF) during a meeting at his home in Kohima on Saturday.
It was also decided to dissolve the committee formed at the emergency cabinet meeting on April 21 to go into the issue, CTAN and NNQF said in a joint release after the meeting. The release added that the CTAN and NNQF leaders attended the meeting on the invitation of the minister.
However, the CTAN and NNQF said if the formal written copies of the revocation order and the committee dissolution documents, as assured by the minister, are not received by Monday afternoon, the agitation against the absorption to the 147 posts will be escalated beyond the level of the previous four days.
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Both the organisations will hold an official press conference on Monday after the formal documents are released.
The
Naga Students Federation
(NSF) on Saturday directed all its federating units to mobilise volunteers to assemble at Naga Solidarity Park, Kohima, to initiate the first phase of democratic agitation if the state govt fails to revoke the Dec 17, 2024, cabinet order.
The NSF issued the directive as per its resolution adopted during its presidential council meeting held on Friday and in view of the seven-day ultimatum served to the state govt on April 22, which will expire on Monday, demanding the revocation of the cabinet order.
The federation said it firmly stands against the "arbitrary" and "unjustified" regularisation order, which is detrimental to the future of countless deserving aspirants and undermines the sanctity of meritocracy and transparency in governance.
"This notification is issued for strict compliance in the larger interest of the student community and the future of merit-based governance in the state of Nagaland," the NSF said in a release.
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