Meghalaya Cabinet to discuss Roster System soon

State Government will convene a Cabinet meeting and an all-party meeting soon to decide how to deal with the matter

Amid the growing political clamour to review the Roster System, Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong said on Wednesday that a meeting of the Cabinet would be convened soon and an all party meeting too would be held to discuss the Roster System.

The Cabinet meeting and the all-party meeting would be held and as soon as Chief Minister Conrad Sangma is back in the state, the Deputy CM said.

Responding to a query about a section of people demanding the recruitment processes in all government offices to be put on hold, Dy CM Prestone Tynsong said that the implementation of the Roster System in the State Reservation Policy with a retrospective effect in Meghalaya was not the decision of the Meghalaya Government, it was the Meghalaya High Court’s decision.

“Way back in 2022, the Meghalaya High Court has given the ruling. After that we (the state Government) almost three times filed an affidavit and pleaded to the High Court to allow the Govt to implement the roster system prospectively not retrospective, but HC said that the roster system should be implemented retrospectively (which means from the inception of the Reservation policy).” The Deputy CM said.

It may be mentioned here that the implementation of the Roster System in the State Reservation Policy retrospectively has turned into a political hot potato with many groups as well as political parties such as–Voice of the People Party (VVP), KHNAM, Achik Conscious Holistically Integrated Krima (ACHIK), the Khasi Students Union claiming that the roster system is flawed since it is detrimental to job seekers from the Khasi and Jaintia communities.

The Meghalaya High Court had earlier refused to give any cut-off year for the roster system while dismissing a PIL by ACHIK vice president Greneth Sangma with a note that the decision for a cut-off date or how far back the roster system would be made applicable is left with the legislature and the executive.

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