Dimapur, July 16 (MExN): An organization of the Yimchunger community, the Yimchunger Akheru Arihako (YAA) today stepped in to back a district cultural officer, of the department of Art & Culture, who is said to have been ‘discriminated’ and ‘deprived’ of seniority by the department. The YAA issued a copy of a letter addressed to the commissioner & secretary of Art & Culture.
According to the YAA, the officer Murelim Yimchunger, a DCO of Tuensang detected the anomaly in the seniority list on May 31, 2002.
He brought the anomaly to the notice of the department but the authorities did not pay heed. Calling the case ‘sheer discrimination’, the organization said the department requisitioned posts for direct recruitment instead of promoting the senior incumbent to the vacancy. The action also bypassed provisions of the Nagaland Art & Culture Service Rules, 1992, the YAA stated in the letter.
The organization’s president Z Throngshe and advisor H Mukam Yimchunger appended the letter.
The action of the department is a criminal offense under section 34, IPC ‘carried out with common intention to marginalize and discriminate’, the YAA claimed. “Shri. Murelim Yimchunger was then the senior most incumbent in line for promotion who could have promoted to the post of registering officer as the post was clearly lying vacant before he got the officiating promotion had it not been manipulated by the department,” the YAA stated.
The YAA has demanded from the authorities to take necessary corrective measure at the earliest “to avoid any unseen untoward consequences for which act of your kindness YAA shall be ever grateful.”
According to the YAA, the officer Murelim Yimchunger, a DCO of Tuensang detected the anomaly in the seniority list on May 31, 2002.
He brought the anomaly to the notice of the department but the authorities did not pay heed. Calling the case ‘sheer discrimination’, the organization said the department requisitioned posts for direct recruitment instead of promoting the senior incumbent to the vacancy. The action also bypassed provisions of the Nagaland Art & Culture Service Rules, 1992, the YAA stated in the letter.
The organization’s president Z Throngshe and advisor H Mukam Yimchunger appended the letter.
The action of the department is a criminal offense under section 34, IPC ‘carried out with common intention to marginalize and discriminate’, the YAA claimed. “Shri. Murelim Yimchunger was then the senior most incumbent in line for promotion who could have promoted to the post of registering officer as the post was clearly lying vacant before he got the officiating promotion had it not been manipulated by the department,” the YAA stated.
The YAA has demanded from the authorities to take necessary corrective measure at the earliest “to avoid any unseen untoward consequences for which act of your kindness YAA shall be ever grateful.”
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