SHILLONG, APR 11: Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong on Monday said that the state government will soon put in place a mechanism to ensure the job recruitment process is not affected.
“The state government has entrusted the chief secretary to work out a mechanism and very soon we are going to file an affidavit before the Meghalaya High Court so that the process of recruitment to the different posts will not be affected,” Tynsong told reporters.
His statement came following the order of Meghalaya High Court, which stayed all recruitment processes of the state government until a roster system is put in place.
Tynsong however stated that in fact even if there is no roster system, the Meghalaya Public Service Commission (MPSC) and the different departments have ensured equal share while implementing the reservation policy.
Hearing a petition on April 5, 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.
“This will apply across State government agencies and instrumentalities in the State wherever the reservation policy is in vogue,” it 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.
The court expressed shock that the same “distressing feature” existed while filling up various posts in the high court over the last decade of its existence.
Advocate General Amit Kumar, who appeared for the state government, acknowledged that reservation cannot be implemented without a roster.
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