Shillong, April 19: Cabinet Minister and United Democratic Party leader Paul Lyngdoh pointed out the blunder in the state reservation policy as it takes two to three years for filling up.of posts.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Lyngdoh said solution to the blunder committed for the past 50 years cannot come in a matter of five days.
“It is also a fact that a blunder was committed 50 years ago so how do you resolve that? It is more difficult because it is an issue that has been festering for half a century so a solution will not come in five days”, he said.
When asked, Lyngdoh said, “Why are you saying that it is not a blunder. There are a lot of errors in the entire policy. For instance, giving space of two-three years for a post to be filled up means you are undermining, compromising the quality of the administration. Now if an office has to have 12 staff members and because you have to wait for two years it means that the office is running short of staff for 2-3 years – that itself is a blunder”.
He said the issues related to roster system and reservation policy will be discussed at various levels.
No mandate for reservation policy review
Lyngdoh said the UDP had listed as number one on its manifesto a change of the reservation policy,
“We fielded 46 candidates and only 11 of us won. Even if you only think of the Khasi-Jaintia sector, we won 11 out of 36, minus the 10 we fielded in the Garo Hills, so it means that the majority of the constituencies are not interested in any change of the reservation policy.”
According to him, 25 constituencies did not favour a change of the reservation policy.
“Even if you combine UDP 11 plus VPP 4 that will still make it 15 and 15 out of 36 is still not a majority.”
