Newmai News Network
IMPHAL, May 28
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ll Tribal Students’ Union, Manipur (ATSUM-Tombing) and Joint Students’ Co-ordination Committee (JSCC) today threatened to resort to series of agitation if the ongoing process to conduct the Main Examination to the Manipur Civil Service is not halted immediately.
There were several errors in question papers and the marking pattern of the 2014 Preliminary Examination conducted by the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC).
Issuing of forms for the Main Examination has begun since May 21.
In a joint press conference held today, ATSUM and JSCC reiterated their demand to cancel the Preliminary Examiniation Results of 2014 and start a fresh examination.Both JSCC and ATSUM have expressed their resentment on the farcical situation created by the negligence committed by Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC) regarding the 2014 Preliminary examiniation results. They have also demanded that if the MPSC is not capable of conducting such examination it should be handed over to the UPSC.
Earlier, the JSCC had apprised the Governor of Manipur while the All Manipur Muslim Girl’s Student Union, United Minority and Student’s Federation of North East Education and social Upliftment Department had asked for the re-evaluation the examiniation papers or else threatened to resort to starn form of agitation.
It can be recalled here that ATSUM-Tombing had asked the Manipur chief minister to cancel the results altogether and call for fresh recruitment. In its representation to the chief minister of Manipur ATSUM said, “The people’s trust and faith is gaining tremendously on the MPSC for fairness in selection of candidates on merit basis during the recently declared MPSC-CSE examinations, it is indeed disappointing that there has been a hue and cry from candidates in the recently declared MPSC CSE prelims 2014 on the question of 15-16 irrelevant questions which do not correspond to the answer keys”. ATSUM then asked that it is beyond one’s imaginations as to why such a blunder mistakes are committed by the questions setters of a prestigious autonomous body like MPSC. In case of inadvertent mistake in one or two question is an exceptional case but errors in 15 answer keys is a mockery quite fit to be laughed at in such an era of sophisticated computer era, ATSUM added.
“It is pertinent to note the modus operandi of the MPSC in giving ample room to suspect favouritism, nepotism and culture of corruption in the selection process. Either the UPSC or MPSC has never created such a history of declaring the examination results in phase wise as is the case with the MPSC of the present leaving a specious room of the foul play,” ATSUM representation to the chief minister stated.
According to ATSUM, 70% of questions being copy pasted from the UPSC exam from 2000-2013, subject experts must have encouraged their respective candidates to copy the spelling of KETTLE. It is a disgrace and dishonour in the realm of a competitive world, the tribal student body felt.
To maintain the standard of the MPSC to the bench marks and avoid legal complication, your esteemed Government is fervently beseeched to cancel the aforesaid examination and call for fresh examination to do justice to both successful and un successful candidates, the tribal student body added.
