Aizawl, May 17 : Even as the State Cabinet’s decision to create an Information Technology department in Mizoram pleased hundreds of youths, the proposal to put a bureaucrat as the head of the department has evoked strong opposition.
The Mizoram Educated Unemployed Association today hinted that the recent Cabinet meeting’s resolution on creation of information technology department has been overruled.
The meeting minute has stated that the Council of Ministers, has however, after discussing it twice, resolved that a technocrat shall head the(IT) department and will be called the chief information officer(CIO), MEUA said in a statement.
Contrary to the Cabinet’s resolution, the meeting minute stated that the upcoming IT department shall have a bureaucrat as head of department, it said, and questioned the government’s claims of “opening more opportunities for technical students”.
“We are really shocked that the meeting minute came out against the Council of Ministers’ resolution,”’ the MEUA statement said, adding that this is a contempt to our legislation.
Although the statement said that the association has talked to the concerned minister it did not give the contents of the conversation. The MEUA strongly urged the Government to place a technocrat as the head of the department as per the Cabinet’s decision.
“We will take every possible step to ensure this,” the statement added. Similarly, the Mizoram Computer Science and Engineering Association (MICSEA) also took a strong exception to the way the meeting minute contradicted the previous Cabinet meeting’s resolution.
In a memorandum to the chief minister, MICSEA said it strongly suspected foul play and demanded him to rectify the matter. A move to put a non-technical person to head the much-awaited IT department has come as a shock to the entire IT-educated youths, the memorandum said.
This will bring about hurdles to IT development in Mizoram as well as take away the opportunities of IT-educated youths. The much-awaited IT department will neither live up to expectations,” MICSEA said in the memorandum.
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