MPSC embroglio

 TKS plead CM prompt intervention on MPSC embroglio

Addie Chiphang

UKHRUL, 29 July, 2021:  THE Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (TKS/Tangkhul students  union) is seeking prompt government action from the State Chief Minister on the matter of Manipur Civil Service Combined Competitive Examination – 2016 (MCSCCE-2016).

       

     TKS applauds the leadership and initiatives undertaken by the  Chief Minister  N. Biren Singh so far that have noticeably improved the situation of law and order and overall conditions of the state. 

       In a press statement signed by TKS president Eno. Shimri Raising and Ql. Yuimi Vashum Secretary made available to this media states that the interest of the youth, today we would like to express our deep concern for the imbroglio surrounding the MCSCCE 2016 conducted by the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC). When the judgment was passed on 18 Oct. 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 press statement alleged. The Hon’ble 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 TKS furture said 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. 

The students community 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. 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 half-baked rules. We understand that penalizing the guilty and making rules that meet national standards are pre-requisites for all future exams of MPSC.

So for this sorry state of affairs, we make this appeal to the office of the esteemed 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. It is also petitioned that the government 

should concomitantly take appropriate action to protect the genuine and innocent. No citizen should suffer for the fault and crimes of other, the press statement adds.