Don’t delay MCSCC (Main) Exam: Group of Aspirants

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Dec 18: The Group of Aspirants has appealed Government not to delay the MCSCC (Main) Examination 2016.
In a statement today, they reminded that a review petition filed by some of the then successful candidates, now terminated officers, had been dismissed by the High Court on December 17 last year.
The review petition was filed after the High Court quashed the MCSCC (Main) Examination 2016 on October 18, 2019. The Supreme Court had also upheld the order of the HC quashing the examination on November 22, 2019 and ordered the MPSC (Manipur Public Service Commission) to conduct the MCSCC (Main) Exam 2016 afresh.
The terminated officers and Government of Manipur had challenged the judgement on the ground that wards of members of the members of the inquiry committee, which probed the alleged irregularities in the examination, had appeared in the MCSCC Preliminary Examination  2016 and accordingly, the committee had submitted a “biased  report”, said the Group of Aspirants.
While the inquiry was conducted on the Main examination only, the wards of the members of the inquiry member were not successful in the Preliminary Examination.
In addition, the inquiry committee was formed by an order of the High Court on November 20, 2017 with the knowledge of Counsels of all the involved parties in the matter. No one had challenged the appointment of the members. The Supreme Court had also granted permission to the committee to inspect all the answer sheets including that of the successful candidates. Accordingly, the inquiry committee submitted its final report on July 9, 2018.
The inquiry committee had reported gross illegalities and irregularities. As many as 5,764 answer scripts were found without the signature of Supervisor while 93 were found lacking signatures of the examiners.
The MPSC was found violating rules in the conduct of the examination such as conducting the examination by Secretary MPSC by taking the charge of Controller of Examination, conducting the examination by the Additional Secretary MPSC again taking the charge of Controller for 10 days while Secretary was out of station, no Head Examiner in the said examination, no instruction or guidelines was provided to the officials involved including the examiner, no moderation and scaling  and providing extra answer sheets to some of the candidates violating instruction to the examinations, said the Group of Aspirants.
Considering all these facts, the High Court had clearly mentioned in its October 18, 2019 order that the MCSCC (Main) Examination 2016 was “not an examination at all” and directed the MPSC to quash the said examination. The Court also directed the Department of Personnel, Government of Manipur to cancel the appointment of the successful candidates.
Stating that the State Government had filed the review petition after Supreme Court upheld the High Court order of quashing the Main Examination, the Group of Aspirants asked if the Government would further go to the Supreme Court to defend the matter by “wasting maximum resources” of the State and precious time of the candidates.
The Group of Aspirants has been pursuing to make the MPSC clean and transparent and ensure corruption free recruitment with the help of the public, it said, appealing for public support.
The group urged the Government and MPSC to conduct the MCSCC (Main) Examination 2016 without further delay.