By: Ph. Didar
The Manipur Public Service Commission was set up in 1972. Since its inception many examination have been conducted in free and fair manner. But in the midst of its journey of recruitment process some black sheep in the department has deteriorated the image of the commission with their malicious intention inter-alia victimised many aspirants. One such example is the cancellation of MPSC 2016 Batch by the order of Hon’ble Supreme Court and subsequently gave its verdict to re-conduct the mains examination.
In the sidelines, the present Government has transformed many sectors which aimed at all round development. Credit goes to Hon’ble CM so called People’s CM. In pursuant to this, the government has revolutionised and envisioned the hope of every people of Manipur with its development activities vis-a-vis trying to curb corruption from grassroots level. Mention may be made of some changes that has been brought under his leadership are bridging Hill valley gap, Bandh free state, reducing highway Extortion, Enactment of Mob Lynching Act, New Road drainage policy, strengthening conservation of paddy land and wetlands act, war on drugs, Transfer and posting policy, Quarter allotment policy, Eviction of Land encroachers policy and climate change policy and many more left to mention in this public domain.
Meanwhile, one department which still left untouched is the Manipur Public Service Commission where the dreams of many aspirants who would nourish the future administration of Manipur flourish. On 18th of this month, the Government in its cabinet meeting unanimously accepted to fill 323 vacant post (MCS, MPS, MFS, SDC, EO) as seen in poknapham local daily. Moreover, it has also been decided to frame Manipur Civil services combined competitive examination rules and regulations, syllabus 2022 in toto. A welcome steps for the government and an awakening gesture for aspirants.
Now, the major question is How transparent the upcoming Examination will be? Will there be any policy to provide carbon copy for answer script’s of the candidates so that everyone may trust the commission hitherto not at all and end of justice in the name of corruption free examination? We hope the government will direct the concerned authorities to frame the new rules and regulations considering the gravity of the issues underlying in MPSC recruitment process.