SHILLONG, JAN 15: 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.
However on Tuesday, the around eighty Grade IV candidates staged a protest at the parking lot near the secretariat without getting the permission from the district magistrate. East Khasi hills SP M Kharkhrang told this website, “Around eighty of them have been rounded up for violating section 144 CrPC and have been taken to Mawngap.” He, however, said as of now the process of filing an FIR was still going on and he is not in a position to tell whether they will be arrested or detained.”
The agitating Grade IV candidates had asked for the permission to stage the protest from the East Khasi district magistrate. However, their request was turn down but the aspirants went ahead and stage with their agitation.
It is reported that initially the sit-in protest was peaceful, but as soon as Irene Hujon, former Civil Society Women Organisation (CSWO) member and her follower Christabel Wanniang came and join the protest things went awry. It is said 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.-By Our Reporter
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