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The Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) connected Thursday (November 6, 2025) intensified its ongoing agitation against the Nagaland Government by enforcing a full-scale ‘tools down’ onslaught alongside the existing pen down agitation.
The JCC is composed of the Confederation of All Nagaland State Services Employees Association (CANSSEA), Nagaland In-Service Doctors Association (NIDA), Nagaland Secretariat Service Association (NSSA), Nagaland Finance and Accounts Service Association (NF&ASA), and Federation of Nagaland State Engineering Service Association (FONSESA).
Alleging that the authorities has failed to respond positively contempt much than 40 days of peaceful protest, the committee said the question would proceed until its request for the ‘restoration of merit’ is met.
Reiterating that its halfway demands stay unchanged, the JCC sought the restoration of the March 10 vacancy circular and the withdrawal of the “non-NPSC/backdoor candidate” from the IAS induction sheet list.
With the onslaught present expanded, the All Nagaland Government Drivers’ Association, Nagaland Civil Secretariat Drivers’ Association, All Nagaland Directorate & District Government Drivers’ Union, and the Nagaland Civil Secretariat Grade-IV Staff Employees Association are actively participating successful the tools down protest.
The committee has instructed each its members crossed directorates and work associations to guarantee that indispensable services — nationalist transport, ambulances, acquisition instauration conveyance service, sanitation, powerfulness and PHE services stay uninterrupted and that the protestation remains peaceful and confined to workplaces.
The State Government connected October 30 defended its position, stating that the IAS induction process being followed is based connected decades aged administrative convention.
Government spokesperson and Minister K.G. Kenye said the JCC’s insistence that lone Nagaland Civil Service (NCS) officers beryllium considered for IAS induction was a “new development” and not accordant with long-standing practice.
“This is the archetypal clip we are facing specified absorption to having adjacent 1 IAS vacancy unfastened to different services,” Mr. Kenye said, adding that successive governments person ever recommended astatine slightest 1 non-State civilian services serviceman who has shown “outstanding merit, efficiency, and work record”. Requesting the JCC to reconsider their basal and reconstruct normalcy successful the larger involvement of the people, Mr. Kenye said the State Government would hold for the observations of the DoPT and UPSC earlier taking immoderate further decision.
“We person not violated immoderate guidelines. If determination are differing opinions, fto the Centre decide,” helium said, portion stressing that governance should not beryllium paralysed by specified disputes.
This is the 4th signifier of the agitation since it was launched connected September 25, opening with the wearing of achromatic badges, followed by a poster run and a pen-down strike.
