SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Agricultural Students and Graduates Association (MASGA) has expressed concerns as the state government has not taken any step regarding the recruitment of Agriculture Department.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the organisation informed that there was no recruitment in the department since 2007-08.
The MASGA has conducted several meetings with the Agriculture Minister and the concerned officials and also held a sit-in protest on August 9, 2018 to make the department pay attention to the matter yet, the department has failed to take any steps.
“Prima facie The Meghalaya High Court on March 24, 2015 “vide case no. WA. No. 10/2015” has also dissolved the last recruitment due to discrepancies in the recruitment process and re-exam of the 16 posts has been held during the month of October, 2018 yet, a result for the same has not been declared till date,” the statement said.
Furthermore, according to the RTI answered “vide letter no. AGRI(E)68/2015/82, dated June 28, 2016” the list of vacant post as on May 31, 2015 was 57 (or more since the RTI was not clear) which implied that there were many vacancies in the Department.
The MASGA has urged the department to speed up the recruitment process before every agricultural graduate over-aged or else, be held responsible if the association takes any further steps.
