HYC accuses NEIGRIHMS of adopting anti-tribal policy

The Hynniewtrep Youth Council (HYC) on Monday served a 10-day ultimatum to the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) to address the 6-point charter of demands related to the recruitment process in the institute.

In a letter to the Director of the Institute, HYC president Roy Kupar Synrem said the council strongly protested against the anti-tribal/anti-local policies of the NEIGRIHMS management in the past few months with regards to job opportunities to local indigenous youth and job applicants.

“We hope and urge upon you as the Head of the Institute to consider our just and reasonable demands for the welfare of our youths and the State as a whole and inform to us…within a period of 10 days from today,” he said.

Synrem also warned, “(On) failing we shall be compelled to call upon all our youths and job aspirants to march to NEIGRIHMS and to put your office Building under lock and key.”

Highlighting the six charter of demands, the HYC president said that the decision by NEIGRIHMS to recruit Nursing Officers through NORCET has greatly affected the local youths and serving local indigenous nurses in the Institute to get opportunity to be employed in the Institute.

“Hence, we demand that recruitment should be done by NEIGRIHMS itself and the decision to recruit Nurse through NORCET should be recalled and cancelled forthwith,” he said.

He said, “The recruitment for various posts of staff/employees in the Institute should be done by NEIGRIHMS and not by any outside Agency and the recruitment process should be conducted in the State of Meghalaya and not outside. That outsourcing agency(s) should be appointed from amongst the qualified local agencies and not from outside the State.”

He said the HYC also demanded that all the contractual or casual jobs should be specifically given to indigenous local qualified candidates adding a one-time absorption policy should be implemented to absorb all those Nurses who have been employed on contractual basis for a considerable period of time in the Institute.

“For jobs under Group B and C categories, there should be 80% reservations for local indigenous youths of the State,” Synrem further stated.