SHILLONG:
Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma, on Tuesday, said that the state government will resolve the issue pertaining to court order which stayed all recruitment processes of the state government until a roster system is put in place.
Speaking to media persons, Sangma said that he had reviewed the matter in a meeting held with the chief secretary and the personnel department.
“We are preparing the affidavit to reply to all the concerns that have been raised by the high court and we hope will be able to move forward in a positive way and get this matter resolved as there are many areas and many recruitment boards like the police and education which are conducting large number of recruitments in the state and so we want them to go through,” he said.
He assured that the government is taking up the matter very seriously and necessary affidavits will be filed before the High Court shortly.
Hearing a petition, a bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee described the absence of a roster system as a “deplorable state of affairs”, which leaves open possibilities of nepotism and arbitrariness, and worse forms of subversions.
“The further recruitment processes for all posts in the State will remain in the sense that no further appointments will be made until the roster system is put in place,” the court said while hearing the matter on April 5.
“This will apply across State government agencies and instrumentalities in the State wherever the reservation policy is in vogue,” it had added.
It was “alarming” that despite 50 years of statehood and an equal number of years of reservation in government jobs, the roster system is absent, the court observed.
“This Bench was constrained to raise a question in the course of a recent matter as to how the reservation policy could be implemented without a roster,” it asked.