Respect reservation policy: ATSUM
Source: The Sangai Express
Kangpokpi, November 27 2018:
The All Tribal Students' Union Manipur has urged the authority concerned and State Government to respect reservation policy of the State.
Kakai Singsit, education secretary, ATSUM said that there will be peace among the different communities of the State only when the rights of every community are respected and held in high esteem.
"There can be no trust and understanding when one community tries to usurp the lands and rights of the other minority community by means of money power and political influence," he said.
"ATSUM, ANSAM and KSO had vociferously protested against the recruitment process of College Principals undertaken by MPSC in November 2017 and demanded either for the cancellation or rectification of the recruitment process as it had detected lapses and blunders in the process, however only to be brazenly rebuffed," he said.
"Not a single ST candidate could make the cut in the recruitment of 11 Principals.
But a thorough scrutiny revealed that the then recruitment process was tailor-made for few specific people and the process was skewed to favour them," he alleged.
He further said that after considerable amount of tussle with the authority concerned, the matter was put to rest with assurance from the Education Minister that the 7 (seven) ST vacant posts would not be touch in future recruitments and that the Principals of the 7 (seven) hill colleges would remain untouched.
Kakai Singsit also said that the notification issued by the MPSC on November 14, 2018 for the recruitment of the vacant Principal posts for the colleges of the State is laudable but it should not be in contravention of the agreement ATSUM had with the department concerned.
We have a hunch that there is an attempt to usurp the 7 (seven) ST posts in the event of no qualified candidate from the ST community, he said and added that if this is true then it will amount to stirring the hornet nest and ATSUM shall move mountain so that ST's rights are not infringed upon.
He further said that the assurance that was given to ATSUM on the same day that no incumbent Principal of the 7 (seven) Hill Colleges will be touch in future should be respected.