Recruitment Exams: When will the results come out?

Babina Wahengbam *

This is certainly a million dollar question for those who have applied for Manipur Police jobs one and half years back!

While the results for the previous recruitment exams are put on hold, last month again, Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh announced that about 4,678 police personnel and commandos will be recruited to replace central forces who at present are aiding the civil administration to tackle insurgency problem.

According to official sources, the personnel to be recruited will include 678 Manipur Rifles personnel and 2400 civil and reserve police forces.

But Mr Chief Minister, could you please tell us when will the results for the previous exams for Manipur Police and IRB be announced?

Isn't one and half year more than enough to declare the results? Do you intend to take it to the grave or are you thinking of squeezing out a few more bucks from it? At least, tell us how long is it going to take?

For you Mr CM, the results may mean nothing more than a sheet of paper with some figures and names. But where corruption prevails in every sphere of works, it's a hell lot of money at stake. People are paying in terms of lakhs hoping that my son or my brother gets the job.

Starting from the physical test to viva-voce, it's all about money. And they are paying it not because they have money but because they wanted the job at any cost especially when money comes on top of merit.

And from where does the money come? Many of the applicants' family including mine took loans, sell properties, borrowed at high interest and what not and from where not in the hope that once the job is in hand, the debts will be cleared slowly and steadily. But what do we get? Neither job nor money but deeper in debt!!

Let's do a little bit of calculation here. If the applicant has borrowed Rs 3 lakh at a minimum of 5 % interest, which is mostly higher than this, he must be paying Rs 15,000 interest per month. And Rs 1,80,000 interest a year. So in all, he has dumped at least Rs 4,80,000 and bears the burden of higher debt for a dream job, which is unlikely to get an appointment letter in near future.

Those of you who have taken the money in the name of offering the job may have digested it by now and may have even forgotten that they have taken Rs 2.5 to 3 lakh from the candidates but what about us (meecham praja di shendoi na khwang koirae). There cannot be a better timing than this to make the new announcement. It's just the right time to woo the poor people and suck their hard-earned cash.

I doubt if any militant outfits would come up and own that they also involve in the recruitment process by joining hands with dirty politicians and filthy bureaucrats. Forgetting that they took the responsibility of eliminating corruption, they rather enjoy a share of the huge money collected from the people in the name of management seat for UGs. What a Quota!

And I'm not talking only of Manipur Police jobs. What happened to the IRB exams? What happened to the Manipur Police (women) recruitment exams? I'm sure, there must be lot more recruitment exams than these which are just taken for the big bucks and the results never came out. A lot of money has gone down the drain.

So, will our honourable Mr CM conduct another recruitment exam and sleeps off without giving any further notice? Will our poor people keep offering money to the devils and raise more debts? Will our so called guardians of Kangleipak come out and change the system? Will the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer?

Mr CM, I request you to kindly announce the results of the exams conducted and please stop talking about any new recruitment when you cannot accommodate the earlier ones. Do you hear me?

The laws states that corruption is a crime but in a state like Manipur where everyone, from government to its people is corrupted, corruption takes the centrestage. And that's when criminals with crooked minds run the state.