{"id":133982,"date":"2020-08-07T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=133982"},"modified":"2020-08-07T01:59:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T20:29:55","slug":"union-writes-to-cs-over-illegal-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/08\/07\/union-writes-to-cs-over-illegal-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Union writes to CS over illegal appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Indrajit Tingwa]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAMSAI Aug 6:<\/strong> Taking strong exception to &#8220;illegal appointments in the public health engineering &amp; water supply department, Namsai division,&#8221; the All Tai Khamti and Singpho Students&#8217; Union has written a complaint letter to the chief secretary, through the Namsai deputy commissioner, regarding the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0In the letter, which it submitted to the DC on Thursday, the union alleged that several persons have been illegally appointed as casual and temporary casual workers in the department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It demanded &#8220;immediate suspension of all illegal backdoor appointees,&#8221; and sought action against the officials involved in appointing those persons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the appointment orders accessed by the union and made available to this correspondent, at least three persons were appointed during the lockdown period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union claimed that the department &#8220;has been randomly recruiting contingency, ad hoc and casual staffs without conducting any interviews or selection tests as per laid down rules and regulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It further stated that, while 80 percent of group C and D and multitasking posts should have been filled up by APST candidates of the district concerned, &#8220;contrarily, 80 percent of the posts are absorbed by non-APSTs and APSTs of other districts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union stated that such random, illegal recruitments have taken away opportunities from the local indigenous people who are unemployed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Moreover, without advertisements, the youths are unable to avail the benefits of the posts in the department and as such, locals are deprived of their rights,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said numerous representations were submitted to the PHE&amp;WS department earlier for appointing local indigenous youths but no action was taken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The union also called for &#8220;stopping appointments on compensatory grounds due to deaths of close ones,&#8221; stating that if the trend continues, it would become &#8220;a hereditary post.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Indrajit Tingwa] NAMSAI Aug 6: Taking strong exception to &#8220;illegal appointments in the public health engineering &amp; water supply department, Namsai division,&#8221; the All Tai Khamti and Singpho Students&#8217; Union has written a complaint letter to the chief secretary, through the Namsai deputy commissioner, regarding the matter. \u00a0In the letter, which it submitted to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}