SHILLONG:
Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Tuesday said the government was focused on the implementation of the roster system and will revisit and study the matter properly.
“We are on the job,” Tynsong told reporters.
Informing that an all-party meeting will also be convened next month to discuss the roster issue, the deputy chief minister however said, “Before doing that, we will have a detailed discussion in the Cabinet and with the MDA partners.”
When asked about the demand for reviewing the state reservation policy, Tynsong said, “Amendment does not arise. This is not the Act, it is only a policy and this policy has been initiated and started right from 1972.”
“I even saw one political party demanding that we should have a special session which is not at all needed except if we intend to amend the Act, the existing Act, the highest authority to agree to the amendment is the legislative assembly,” he added.
Further, Tynsong said that just demanding a review of the reservation policy is not as simple as that.
He said after discussion in the Cabinet and with MDA partners the government will invite all political parties and stakeholders at one go where everything about the roster system will be explained, including whether it should have retrospective or prospective effect.
The deputy chief minister said that right now the concern of the stakeholders and the people of the state is it should be implemented prospectively not retrospectively. “I think that is the core issue. I have seen quite a number of NGOs in the state who have demanded the same thing,” he said.