PRESS RELEASE

Apex Chakma NGOs Urge Governor’s Immediate Intervention Over Alarming Irregularities in CADC

Aizawl, 12th June, 2025: The three apex Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) of the Chakma community in Mizoram, i.e. Young Chakma Association (YCA), Mizoram Chakma Students’ Union (MCSU), and Chakma Mahila Samiti (CMS) have jointly submitted a comprehensive memorandum to His Excellency Gen. (Dr) V.K. Singh, PVSM, AVSM, YSM (Retd.), Hon’ble Governor of Mizoram, calling for urgent and decisive action to address the deepening crisis within the Chakma Autonomous District Council (CADC). The NGOs have highlighted serious administrative violations, alarming fiscal mismanagement, and rampant political instability which they warn are threatening the integrity and functioning of the CADC as a constitutionally protected institution under the Sixth Schedule.

The memorandum brings to light that over 200 illegal appointments (the actual number is allegedly to be significantly higher) have been made by the CADC authorities since the Governor’s moratorium was imposed on 30th November 2022. These include direct appointments made without any public advertisement, examination, or interviews; regularisation of fixed pay and contractual staff without proper approval; and issuance of backdated appointment orders on fraudulent grounds. The NGOs have submitted a preliminary list of these appointments and have termed the practice a flagrant breach of constitutional norms and a subversion of lawful governance.

Equally concerning is the deepening political turmoil within CADC, marked by frequent and incentivised regime changes—five during the last Council term and two already in the current term. Now, just months into the new administration approved by Hon’ble Governor in January 2025, a fresh wave of defections has emerged, raising the spectre of yet another imminent regime change. The memorandum highlighted that elected MDCs are being lured with executive posts and illegal appointments for loyalists, resulting in a cycle of defections and governance paralysis. 

Meanwhile, the CADC is facing a severe financial crisis: salaries have remained unpaid for four months in the previous year, and projections show an eight-month deficit looming this fiscal year. The NGOs alleged that this is due to the diversion of funds to illegitimate appointees, neglect of regular staff wages, halted developmental works, and mounting liabilities from unchecked hiring of casual workers.

To arrest this crisis, the NGOs have urged the Governor to immediately terminate all illegal appointments made since 30th November 2022 and initiate appropriate disciplinary and criminal proceedings. They have also called for the imposition of Governor’s Rule in CADC for six months under Para 16(2) read with Para 20BB of the Sixth Schedule, and the constitution of an Independent Enquiry Commission under Para 14 to probe into the illegal appointments, financial mismanagement, and political corruption. They further demanded that all non-essential financial disbursals to CADC be suspended, except for the salaries of employees appointed prior to the moratorium period and funds for critical welfare schemes.

 The NGOs emphasized that CADC is a constitutionally protected institution for the Chakma people, and urged the Governor’s principled intervention to restore governance, accountability, constitutional order and public trust [Ends].

Jointly issued by:
Young Chakma Association
Mizoram Chakma Students’ Union
Chakma Mahila Samiti


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