Nagaland: Eastern Naga Students’ Federation announces first phase of agitation over NSSB

KOHIMA:

The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF), on November 26 informed that the federation, along with its units, would begin their first phase of agitation from December 30 following the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum and the state government’s failure to meet its charter of demands concerning the Nagaland Staff Selection Board (NSSB) and job reservation for the six backward tribes of Eastern Nagaland.

“The federation had served the ultimatum on November 18, and upon the expiration of the ultimatum, the federation and its six federating units have no other choice but to resort to democratic forms of agitation as there has been no positive response from the Government,” ENSF president Sepili L. Sangtam said.

“Eastern Nagas are intentionally suppressed and deprived in all developmental fronts and all aspects, even after over 57 years of statehood,” he said.

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Sangtam also said that the ENSF’s demands were genuine and based on the principle of Article 16 of the Constitution of India.

The ENSF had earlier placed a six-point charter of demands addressed to the Chief Minister of Nagaland regarding the NSSB and a four-point charted concerning the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC)

The federation also disclosed that following the filing of a series of RTIs, it had detected several irregularities concerning the NPSC and that out of one lakh thirty thousand government employees in the state, the eastern people made up only 6 per cent of first-class gazetted officers and nearly 10 per cent of the third and fourth-grade staff.

(Edited by Andre Kongri)

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