Shillong, Jan 15: Aggrieved qualified Grade IV candidates began their sit- in protest as a mark of expressing discontentment over the government’s failure in addressing to their demands. The sit in protest was staged at parking lot near the secretariat building on Tuesday.
It was learnt that the protest was carried out without the permission from the district magistrate. At the initial stage the protest went on peacefully but no sooner that the members of the Civil Society Women Organization (CSWO) under Irene Hujon joined the aggrieved candidates the protest started to get more agitated.
Sources informed that Hujon entered into a verbal duel with police women and this instigated the police to react and bundled all of them in a waiting bus.
Around eighty Grade IV candidates who had passed their examination but are yet to get appointment in the state government were rounded up by the police and bundled in three buses and taken to Mawngap after they staged a protest demanding appointment from the government.
Of the 331 candidates who passed the District Selection Committee (DSC) examination only 122 of them have so far been given appointment, the rest are still waiting to be appointed. The aggrieved candidates who are yet to be absorbed have been agitating demanding appointment from the government.(SP News)
