Six organisations demand domicile policy in Jharkhand, oppose ad-hoc appointments

JAMSHEDPUR: Six organizations including political parties, anti-displacement and student organizations today strongly opposed Jharkhand government's practice of appointing candidates on ad-hoc basis in permanent jobs and demanded an "amicable, practical and judicious" domicile policy.

Appointment on ad-hoc basis is dangerous as it is depriving the rights of local youths in all categories of government jobs particularly in the 3rd and 4th grade jobs and allow outsiders to grab it, Sia Saran Sharma, state committee member of CPI (ML), said.

Addressing a press conference here today, the leaders of six organizations including President of Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP) Salkhan Murmu, Gautam Bose, the state executive committee member of CPI (ML) PCC, anti-displacement organization "Janmukti Sangharsh Vahini" (JSM), Chatra-Yuva Sangharsh Vahini and Adivasi Sengel Abhiyan jointly pitched for a domicile police, which should be acceptable to all sections of the society.

Criticizing all the political parties including BJP, JMM, Congress, JSM Convenor Arvind Anjum accused them for "lingering" the issue for too-long and "driving a wedge" within the society for political gain.

He also pulled up a senior BJP leader of the state, who had preferred recruitment policy over domicile policy.

Such move would only encourage the outsiders in the government job, Murmu said claiming that 71 per cent of the candidates, who were appointed as an Assistant in the Jharkhand Secretariat recently, were outsiders.

It was made possible as the state did not have its domicile policy, Murmu said ridiculing that Jharkhand was the only state in the country, which did not have a domicile policy even 15 years after its formation.