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NSS reiterates stand on Narendran panel report

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, DEC. 19. The president of the Nair Service Society (NSS), P.V. Neelakanta Pillai, has reiterated that any move at implementing the report of the Narendran Commission Report will be opposed tooth and nail by his organisation.

Inaugurating a symposium on `Narendran Commission Report', organised here today by the Thiruvananthapuram Taluk Union of the NSS, he said the Commission itself had no validity in the light of a verdict of the Supreme Court that paved the way for the Joseph Commission.

The very appointment of the Narendran Commission had become null and void and as such there was no question of accepting its report.

The Nair community would join hands with like-minded organisations to resist any move at going ahead with the report, he said.

Mr. Neelakanta Pillai also wanted the creamy layer of the backward classes to be identified and to be denied the rights of reservation in the matter of appointment to the Government service.

M.R. Hariharan Nair, former Judge of the Kerala High Court, in his keynote address, pointed out that the Narendran Commission had not made any recommendation to the effect that a special recruitment drive be conducted to fill the backlog of vacancies that should have been the prerogative of the backward classes.

In fact, it was only a status report that was meant to throw light on the numerical strength of the backward classes vis-a-vis their representation in public service.

Special recruitment

The Constitution stipulates special recruitment only for the members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and not for the backward classes, said P.N. Narendranathan Nair, a former District Judge and member of the NSS Director Board.

Questioning the validity of the report of the Narendran Commission, which was based only on facts and figures pertaining to an 11-year-period, Shivan Madathil, a lawyer of the Kerala High Court, maintained that it would have been in order if the status report were based on the entire period since the adoption of the Constitution in 1950.

He also described as a serious lapse on the part of the Narendran Commission, the fact that the posts of teachers in the aided schools and colleges in the State had not been taken into account.

Since the appointment of school and college teachers was done as per the statutes of the Government and they were also paid from the State exchequer, their status report should also have been covered by the Commission.

With over 70 per cent of such aided educational institutions coming under the managements of certain communities, it could be seen that the members of these communities had been adequately represented in public service, Mr. Shivan observed.

M. Sangeethkumar, president of the NSS Taluk Union, welcomed the gathering and M.G. Krishnakumar, member, Union Committee, proposed a vote of thanks.

Earlier in the day, M.K. Ramachandran Nair, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kerala, inaugurated the women's convention, held as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Taluk Union and the 90th anniversary of the formation of the NSS.

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