TKS seeks CM's prompt action on MCSCCE-2016 imbroglio
Source: The Sangai Express / Mungchan Zimik
Ukhrul, July 29 2021:
Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) expressed concern over the imbroglio that surrounds the State MCSCCE 2016 examination conducted by Manipur Public Service Commission.
According to the TKS, when the judgment was passed on Oct 18, 2019, the general expectation was that those who were liable for causing the MCSCCE 2016 examination to be quashed would be swiftly penalized.
However, even after almost two years, not even one person has been held and penalized.
The High Court had observed "It is the right time for the MPSC or for that matter, its staff or officials to be penalized for their misdeeds which they have been doing for the last many years and if not penalized now, they would continue to do so in future at the cost of public interest and public money" (page 149), and termed MPSC's rules as "half baked" (Page 150).The MCSCCE 2016 imbroglio is a shameful issue of the State and has also hindered the expectation of genuine aspirants and exacted unbearable cost to the ex-officers/selected candidates who were terminated from service after about two-and-half years because of the misconduct of MPSC.
The Tangkhul students body do not want to inherit a system where, after succeeding in a competitive examination, one's status is destroyed by the incompetence of an agency which is supposed to be the premier recruiting organ of the State and a constitutional body.
TKS has learnt that no guilty staff or officials of the MPSC have been penalized yet and is disturbing that MPSC has not expressed any remorse and have not initiated any sign of MPSC conducting internal inquiry or making attempts to rectify its half-baked rules.
It maintained that penalizing the guilty and making rules that meet national standards are prerequisites for all future exams of MPSC.
The Tangkhul students body appealed to the Chief Minister, to take swift actions to identify and penalize the persons responsible for the MCSCCE 2016 imbroglio and to make the findings public, so that the State's Civil Service recruitment can be resumed at the earliest with public confidence.
It is also petitioned that the Government should simultaneously take appropriate action to protect the genuine and innocent aspirants and no citizen should suffer for the fault and crimes committed
by others.