Nongrang says separate cadre not a good idea for small state like Meghalaya

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 21, 2024

Newly-appointed Director General of Police (DGP) Idashisha Nongrang has expressed that she is absolutely not in line with the idea of having a separate cadre for Meghalaya.

“It is not a very good suggestion why because if you look at it we are a small state, we would have a small cadre…a lot of people doesn’t know that there is a roster system in the government of India where only one-third of the vacancies goes to the local or whoever is domicile in the state. That insider vacancy will arise only in every third vacancy,” Nongrang told reporters on Monday.  

“Take a typical example like Nagaland, it is small cadre and it has always been a separate cadre and nearly every year you have people from Nagaland qualifying so how many of them get into the Nagaland cadre because the insider vacancy arises with only every third vacancy and every year there is only about may be one and it is not guarantee you have a vacancy every year so you get that insider vacancy once in every three years or once in every five years so in that way you lose out,” she said.

She further stated, “Whereas, as a joint cadre we have the state of Assam is much more and the state of Meghalaya is not even one-third of Assam or the cadre strength of it – so if we have been a separate cadre, I can guarantee you I would not have been Meghalaya’s DGP. When the year I qualified in 1992, there were only three vacancies for a joint cadre and because there were three vacancies, one went to an insider and I was the only insider, who was qualified and that’s how I landed up in a home cadre.”

“I had two friends from Manipur and one batchmate from Nagaland and they landed up in different cadres not the home cadre because there was no vacancy – that is the problem with small cadres,” Nongrang added further.