Posers raised over proposed test for MTS post
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 09 2023:
Calling out RIMS for trying to conduct the written test for Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) on November 12, the notification of which was issued around seven years and ten months ago; socio-political commentator Chongtham Bijoy has urged RIMS authority to cancel the notification and issued a new recruitment notification instead, in the interest of youth of the state.
Meeting the media at his Lamphel residence, here, on Thursday, Bijoy recalled that on January 16, 2016, when Prof S Rita was the director of RIMS, an advertisement for recruitment of 134 MTS staff was issued.
At the time, around 18,000 applications were submitted with each applicant paying a fee of Rs 200 each, amounting to over Rs 36 lakh.
The skill test for the PwD quota was conducted on April 1 of the same year and four people were selected, leaving 130 posts vacant.
After Prof Rita's term came to an end and directors appointed subsequently, the incumbent director G Sunil Kumar announced that the written test for filling up the remaining 130 vacancies would be held on November 12.This move is bizarre, considering the fact that the recruitment was notified more than seven years ago, he pointed out.
In addition, candidates can only opt either for Imphal or Guwahati as their choice of examination centre.
RIMS may have provided the Guwahati option in consideration of the Kuki candidates who cannot come to Imphal.
However, this could also be regarded as being partial to Kuki candidates and should not have been considered in the first place, he remarked.
Bijoy continued that Kukis claimed to have physically separated and completed population exchange from Manipur.
While the ten Kuki MLAs did not attend the Assembly session, the two Kuki ministers failed to attend the cabinet meeting which was held in Ukhrul.
Instead, they are busy building a narrative of Kuki dominated areas being segregated from Manipur.
As such, it is wrong on the part of RIMS authority to offer Guwahati as one of the examination centres under the guise of being "understanding".
Thus, RIMS should cancel the ongoing recruitment process and notify a new advertisement instead.
The authority concerned should also return the fees collected from the applicants or use the money to assist displaced people living in relief camps, he asserted.