Nagaland under NGOs pressure
Kohima: The Nagaland government has said it has come to its knowledge that a large number of representations were being received from many NGOs and agencies on service matters of individual officers, particularly with regard to out-of-turn promotions and upgradation and in the matters of posting and transfer. According to an office memorandum here today in some cases, the government said the representations express ‘genuine aspirations’ of the people. However, in most cases it was catering to individual interests of officers or NGOs and agencies. Pointing out that tendency to bring such outside influence on service matters has been viewed very seriously by the government at the highest level, it said it was decided that such acts needed to be discouraged as it amounted to violation of ‘The Nagaland Government Servants Conduct Rules, 1968’. (UNI)
RTI Week concludes
Kohima: Nagaland on Thursday concluded the ‘Right to Information Act’ week along with the rest of the country by holding a one-day seminar on RTI here. Delivering the keynote address, Deputy Commissioner, Bei-u Angami said there should be complete attitudinal change among officials for complete implementation of the Act. He said it was the responsibility of the Public Information Officer of a public authority to supply the complete information within the specified time to any person seeking information under the RTI Act. (UNI)