state workers asked to declare kin link with underground outfits on Guv’s order: Nagaland govt

Guwahati: The Nagaland government has stated the transfer to difficulty workplace memorandum asking state authorities workers to self-declare relating to their relations and family members engaged in any underground organisations was completed on the course of Governor RN Ravi.

A authorities assertion on Thursday stated the Governor, by the Commissioner and Secretary to Governor, had written to the Chief Secretary expressing need to “have a database of state government employees’ family members and relatives in underground organizations.”

“The letter required every government employee to make a self-declaration in a format which was enclosed along with the letters. The letter desired members of the Police Department to be segregated and furnished separately,” it stated.

The governor’s letter had directed the Home Commissioner to maintain exhausting copies of the declaration and ship a comfortable copy to the Governor’s Office by April 2 this 12 months.

Nagaland is dominated by the People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) coalition, which has the regional Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) and the BJP as companions.

The assertion additionally clarified {that a} reminder was despatched on June 24 and that the matter was deliberated by the state cupboard in its assembly held on July 3. The workplace memorandum was issued on July 7.

In the workplace memorandum Chief Secretary Temjen Toy stated all heads of departments have been required to acquire data from workers within the hooked up self-declaration kind and submit them to the Home Department, by August 7.

NSCN-IM denounced it as “a retrograde step worked out insidiously to cripple the Naga political movement” and forcefully convey the Naga political difficulty beneath the purview of ‘law and order’ difficulty.