TKS seeks CM's action on MCSCCE-2016 row
Source: Chronicle News Service / R Lester Makang

Ukhrul, July 29 2021: Irked by the apparent indifferent attitude of the state authorities in the MCSCCE 2016 row, Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS) has sought immediate attention of CM N Biren Singh on the matter.

"We make this appeal to the office of the Chief Minster, to urgently take 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 resume at the earliest with public confidence," TKS president Shimri Raising and general secretary Yuimi Vashum said in a press statement.

The district's apex students' body also urged that the government concomitantly take appropriate action to protect the genuine and innocent candidates.

"No citizen should suffer for the fault and crimes of others," it said.

They said that the MCSCCE 2016 imbroglio has not only brought great shame to the State of Manipur, but has also hindered the aspiration 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 misdeeds of MPSC.

We have come to learn that no guilty staff or officials of the MPSC are penalized yet.

It is also very disturbing that MPSC has not expressed any remorse; there has been no sign of MPSC conducting any internal inquiry or making attempts to rectify its halfbaked rules.

We understand that penalizing the guilty and making rules that meet national standards are pre-requisites for all future exams of MPSC, they said.

"We, the students, do not want to inherit a system where, after succeeding in a competitive examination, our life can be so devastatingly destroyed by the incompetence of an agency which is supposed to be the premier recruiting organ of the State, and a constitutional body," they continued.

The student leaders noted that when the judgment was passed on October 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, they rued.

"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)", they pointed out.

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