Meghalaya Govt forms 3-member search comm to select experts to review Reservation Policy
First Published: 6th June, 2023 21:02 IST
"The Chief Secretary headed committee will start working immediately and hopefully they will get the names at the earliest," said CM Sangma
The Meghalaya Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Conrad Sangma today cleared the proposal to constitute a three-member search committee to select members for the Expert Committee to review the state’s Job Reservation Policy.
The three-member search committee would be headed by the Chief Secretary and have one member each from the Law Department and Personnel Department.
“The Chief Secretary headed committee will start working immediately and hopefully they will get the names to the government at the earliest,” CM Sangma said briefing the media after the Cabinet meeting today.
Chief Minister Conrad Sangma also said that the government has recommended that the expert committee should be a five-member committee and should have experts from different fields as was mentioned in the notification earlier.
Meanwhile, the state government has decided to resume the job recruitment process in the different departments of Meghalaya, which is currently on hold awaiting the review of the state reservation policy.
Stating that the recruitment process cannot be stopped as many youngsters who are meant to get jobs and who are going to apply for them will become overage as the days go by and will suffer, CM Sangma said that the recruiting process will be resumed post-amendment of the Office Memorandum (OM) 2022 for the Reservation Roster.
The implementation of the Roster System in the State Reservation Policy retrospectively has turned into a political hot potato with many groups as well as political parties such as–Voice of the People Party (VVP), KHNAM, Achik Conscious Holistically Integrated Krima (ACHIK), the Khasi Students Union claiming that the roster system is flawed since it is detrimental to job seekers from the Khasi and Jaintia communities.
The roster system determines the reservation of posts for different categories. Since 1972, a total of 40% of state government positions have been set aside for the Garo and Khasi groups, 5% for other in-state tribes, and 15% for the general population.
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