Overview

• The Nagaland government has withdrawn its April 21 order regularising 147 ad-hoc assistant professors and librarians, reverting them to contractual status.
• The revocation comes after a High Powered Committee's interim findings flagged procedural lapses in the regularisation process.
• Protests led by the Naga Students' Federation and other groups demanded merit-based recruitment through the Nagaland Public Service Commission.
• Higher Education Minister KG Kenye acknowledged departmental lapses that misled the cabinet, calling the situation 'awkward and embarrassing.'
• Protest groups have paused their agitation but continue to press for transparent recruitment processes and dissolution of the investigative committee.