SHILLONG, MAY 31: The committee of all political parties on Wednesday said the need to constitute an expert committee to review the state’s job reservation policy will be one of its suggestions to be submitted to the state government.
Addressing media persons after the meeting, chairperson of the committee Ampareen Lyngdoh said constituting the expert committee will be one of the suggestions that they will send to the government.
According to her, not all political parties are in agreement to have an expert committee.
“There are political parties who agree and there are political parties who do not agree. So we will do our job by sending the minutes to the government that these were discussed in the meeting,” she said.
Lyngdoh said that different political parties have their different opinions on the issue of the job reservation policy.
“Some have asked for status quo, some have said review on these, these points but all those presentations were made verbally. Now, we cannot make a verbal presentation in front of the committee and expect the committee to understand what you mean by that,” she said.
She added, “The second thing is you may come with a drop menu and say we want this, this done but you also have to give justification so that government if at all it considers any of your suggestions or for that matter that expert committee should it be an independent committee or should it not be an independent committee we don’t know but you at least have to justify and each political parties will be responded to individually and then we can have a common discussion again.”
The chairperson has also requested all political parties to submit their written suggestions on the matter within a period of 15 days.
“We have requested all political parties to prepare their suggestions, omissions, cancellations, deletions with substantial legal footing as we can always suggest whatever we want but we need to also make sure that we clear the legal scrutiny as the state political parties are mandated to review with condition that there will be no obstruction or scrutiny that will result negatively for the government,” she said.
The chairperson also informed that the two political parties, who did not participate in the first meeting of the committee and were not privy to the discussion on the roster system, will be again meeting with the officers to satisfy their understanding of a proposed roster system.
Meanwhile, the committee is proposing to meet again after three weeks.
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