HT Correspondent
DIMAPUR, Aug 7: The 5 Tribes Committee of Review of Reservation Policy (CoRRP) on Thursday expressed displeasure over the Wednesday’s Nagaland cabinet’s decision on its demands. The committee said it will have a joint sitting with the five apex tribe bodies and decide the next course of action.
CoRRP convenor Tesinlo Semy and member secretary GK Zhimomi, in a release, said the August 6 state cabinet meeting chose to ignore the committee’s core demands and rather went ahead with the composition of the Reservation Review Commission, which includes civil society organisations such as Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation, Central Nagaland Tribes Council and Tenyimi Union Nagaland.
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It added that the outcome of the state cabinet meeting on the backward tribe reservation issue is a repetition of their June 12 meeting.
On June 12, the state cabinet had decided in principle to constitute a commission to examine all aspects of the reservation policy in government employment.
The committee said the “partisan attitude” of the government spokesperson KG Keney on Wednesday in justifying 48 years of indefinite reservation policy and throwing up wild imaginary figures in government employment, as well as interlinking the Reservation Review Commission outcome with the next census, only added insult to its movement.
The committee has been demanding that the 48 years of indefinite job quota for seven backward tribes in Nagaland, introduced in 1977 with an initial duration of 10 years, either be scrapped or the remaining unreserved quota be reserved exclusively for the five tribes of Sumi, Ao, Lotha, Angami and Rengma.
The CoRRP put its proposed third phase agitation on hold after a meeting with chief secretary Sentiyanger Imchen in Kohima on August 4. Imchen told the committee that the state cabinet will take a final call on its core demands, including the framing of terms of reference and composition of a commission to look into the demands within the next fortnight, in its sitting on August 6.
