Shillong, June 13: KHNAM has suggested allotment of 50% job reservation for the Khasi and Jaintia communities to the Expert Committee on State Reservation Policy, on Thursday.
KHNAM president Pyndapborlang Saibon also stressed in the letter the need for a combined reservation of 80% be made available to all three communities – Khasi, Jainta & Garo on the basis of merit.
Saibon said that as per Para 1 of the Policy, the reservation is to be based on the population of the indigenous communities in the state, therefore the reservation should be worked based on the population structure of the Khasi-Jaintia and Garo communities respectively.
The stand of KSU
The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU), in a letter to the Expert Committee on State Reservation Policy on Thursday, has also favoured 50% of the vacancies in favour of the Schedule Tribe Khasi- Jaintia and 40% in favour of the Schedule Tribe Garo community and 5% in favour of other Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes for vacancies at the state level and the remaining 5% to be left as unreserved category to be filled up through direct recruitment.”
Regarding the district level posts where the incumbents are not likely to be transferred outside the district of original posting, “the KSU proposed the reservation will remain as it was embodied in the Resolution No. PER.222/1/132, dated 12th January 1972 with a slight modification if the proposal of 50% for Khasi-Jaintias and 40% for Garos is to be accepted, i.e. there will be a combined reservation of 90% of the posts in favour of Garos, Khasi-Jaintia instead of separate reservation of 50% in favour of Khasi-Jaintia and 40% in favour of Garo, apart from 5% reservation in favour of other Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes who were the inhabitants of Assam but now the other Schedule Castes & Scheduled Tribes in the State of Meghalaya.”
Another suggestion is that while selecting candidates to such posts, preference should be given to the local candidates residing permanently in the concerned district in which the vacancies occurred.
In Garo Hills, the whole combined reservation of 90% will be available to Garos in the absence of any interested candidate belonging to the Khasi-Jaintia community, and in Khasis-Jaintia Hills District, the combined reservation of 90% will be available to Khasi-Jaintias in the absence of any interested candidate belonging to Garo community.
According to KSU, the roster system for the state reservation policy should be implemented with prospective effect.
The KSU advocated 100% reservation in favour of local Khasi-Jaintia candidates for the post of teachers in all schools situated in the schedule areas of Khasi-Jaintia region, and 100% reservation in favour of local Garo candidate for the post of teacher/SSA teacher in all school situated in the Schedule area of the Garo region.
The KSU suggested that the vacancies filled by transfer or deputation or by promotion, temporary appointment of less than 1 (one) year duration and the post which is purely temporary establishment such as work-charged staff including the daily rated and monthly rated staff, the reservation policy will not be applicable.
The KSU suggested that in the new or revised reservation policy, the backlog reserved vacancies which will be carried forward to the next recruitment cycle shall be deleted/omitted.
