ATSUM-T threats to resume stir
Source: Hueiyen News Service / NNN
Imphal, January 24 2014 :
The All Tribal Students' Union Manipur (ATSUM-Tombing group) has resolved to resort to any form of agitation if the government of Manipur does not meet the promise of fulfilling the charters of demand placed before it for redressal of grievances.
ATSUM-T today submitted a memorandum to chief minister O.Ibobi Singh regarding the piecemeal recruitment drive in the state government departments and cancellation of recruitment process in the Manipur Legislative Assembly Secretariat.
According to the union, the chief minister had on November 25, 2013 given assurances to the representatives of ATSUM-T to fill up all the backlog posts in every department by a special recruitment drive for Scheduled Tribes (ST) and that every department in the state government is expected to be responsive in every respect to poise an equilibrium in reservation policy and its implementation.
However, to the astonishment of the Union, the Manipur Legislative Assembly Secretariat has issued recruitment notification dated Imphal, January 16, 2014 inviting application from the intending candidates for appointment to various categories of post in contrast with the assurance of filling up backlog posts in every department by a special recruitment drive for ST.
In this regard, a representation has been submitted to various departments including Health, JNIMS, GAD, Home department, Assembly Secretariat and all other Government Departments for timely conduct by a special recruitment drive for ST to enable filling of all backlog posts.
That, the piecemeal recruitment culture being one of the causes for the microscopic numbers of ST employees in every department, the provisions of reservation remained unfulfilled through bureaucratic and administrative deformation or by narrow interpretations of the special provisions, stated ATSUM-T. The ATSUM-T has thus urged the chief minister of the state to recollect the assurance given regarding the filling up of backlog posts in every department by a special recruitment drive for ST or else the union will take up several procedural actions through its ROTO (Reckoning of the other) third phase agitation.