The Hynñiewtrep Youth Council (HYC) today said that the office memorandum which paved way for implementation of the reservation roster by the state government is illegal.
The “retrospective” use of the reservation policy to implement the roster reservation system was done following the orders of the Meghalaya High Court on April 5 and 20 last year, vide an office memorandum issued on May 10, 2022.
“Any notification in order to have retrospective effect has to be authorized by a statute and in our opinion the office memorandum has no statute which authorized to prepare the reservation roster. Hence, it is illegal and the government must rectify it at the earliest,” HYC president Robertjune Kharjahrin said.
The HYC leaders met Law Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh with a demand to rectify the office memorandum.
Kharjahrin said they have seen that in various advertisements in government offices, certain reserved categories have got more seats than the others and this is because the “faulty and illegal office memorandum.”
He also said that the office memorandum is contradictory to the resolution dated January 12, 1972. “The guidelines as per the OM dated May 10, 2022 provides that the roster shall be prepared since the time the reservation policy came into effect, i.e., from 1972. However, the resolution stated above, clearly specify in Paragraph 2 that after the expiry of the second year, these reservations shall be treated as lapsed in case of non-filling of reserved category posts in any recruitment year,” he added.
It may be mentioned here in that the Meghalaya High Court dropped the suo motu proceedings against the State government and also disposed of the PIL on the same after it was informed that a roster system was adopted for the implementation of the reservation policy for job recruitment.
