Shillong, July 10: The Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) on Monday pointed out that the government is implementing retrospective roster system by saying that the recent police recruitment shows this.
KHNAM working president Thomas Passah issued a statement on Monday in this regard.
“In the latest results of Meghalaya Police declared on 28th June 23, it is seen that 41.63% (420) Khasi-Jaintia candidates were selected and 46.18% (466) Garo candidates were selected which implies that the result was declared based on the retrospective roster system, therefore, we would reiterate that the new OM dated 14 June 23 is a roster with hidden backlog because the data were collected from 1972 while maintaining the roster register”, he said.
According to him, as per the RTI reply received from the Personnel Department on July 5, the party was informed that the departments have not initiated maintenance of roster registers.
“Therefore, the legal question is how the government department can bring into operation the roster system without maintaining the roster register. When asked whether the OM dated 14 June 23 have indicated the month and year from which the roster accounting will start? The Govt. seems to shy away from replaying”, he said.
KHNAM also criticised the political parties for delaying to submit their representation on the reservation policy as he recalled that the meeting convened by the committee of all political parties on the reservation policy on May 31, had taken a decision that all political parties were to submit their representation along with justification within 15 days.
“KHNAM has submitted its representation along with a justification vide letter dated 31st May 2023. However, it is regretted to learn as per the press statement of the Law Minister no political parties submitted their representation till date”. This is a violation of the decision taken in a meeting held on 31st May 23 and very unprofessional on behalf of all concerned,” he said.
“In the all political party meeting the KHNAM, UDP, HSPDP, VPP and INC have expressed their views to review the outdated RP 1972, however it seems that since the matter is off the street everyone has taken a vacation from the important issue which put a questions on their seriousness,” Passah said.
He pointed out that during the all political party meeting held on May 31, KHNAM had expressed fear that the Expert Committee would be just another delay tactic which will slow down the process of review of the RP.
“And as things are going it seems our fear is right. After more than a month now after the 31st May 2023, things have been moving at a snail pace which is highly unacceptable?” he said.
