SHILLONG, Sep 23: Two ministers in the NPP-led MDA Government have allegedly managed to appoint staff in the Meghalaya Urban Development Authority (MUDA) ‘as per their whims and fancies’ due to the absence of service rules.
Claiming this, RTI activist Disparsing Rani, on Friday, said, “The two ministers have used the loophole in MUDA to their advantage. We cannot say that what they have done is illegal since the service rules are yet to be in place in MUDA.”
Talking to newsmen, Rani said MUDA has failed to fill up the 30 vacant posts and advertise them.
Informing that he has filed an RTI application on the vacancies in the various departments including the office of the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of West Khasi Hills, and North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Rani said that as per the RTI, 30 posts lie vacant in the DC’s office in West Khasi Hills.
The office, he said, has appointed people on deputation instead of advertising to fill up the vacant posts. With regard to NEIGRIHMS, he said the the recruitment process for staff nurse is under process, while also discerning that the institute has failed to fill up 367 vacant posts.
“The failure to fill up these vacant posts has affected the functioning of this super specialty hospital,” Rani claimed.
Meanwhile, the RTI activist has urged the state government to come up with one-time schemes for the agitating contractual teachers who have been protesting in the streets for the last two weeks.
