Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong seeks CM’s intervention. It 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, it said
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The Tangkhul Katamnao Saklong (Tangkhul Students’ Union) urged chief minister N Biren Singh to urgently take actions to identify and penalise the persons responsible for the Manipur Civil Service Combined Competitive Examination – 2016 (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 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 others, it added.
Lauding the CM so for improving the situation of law and order and overall conditions of the state, a press statement issued by TKS president Shimri Raising and general secretary Yuimi Vashum expressed its deep concern for the imbroglio surrounding the MCSCCE 2016 conducted by the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC).
TKS said 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 penalised. However, even after almost two years, not even one person has been held and penalized, it lamented.
The High Court had observed, “It is the right time for the MPSC or for that matter, its staff or officials to be penalised for their misdeeds which they have been doing for the last many years and if not penalised 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 student body said 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, 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,” it added.
Stating that they have come to learn that no guilty staff or officials of the MPSC are penalised yet, the student body that 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 prerequisites for all future exams of MPSC,” it added.