SENAPATI: The All Naga Students’ Association Manipur (ANSAM) today stated that “the highest recruiting organ of the Government of Manipur cannot be trusted to carry out its mandate with integrity, efficiency and acceptability.” ANSAM, in a press note, said that 16 questions in the Manipur Civil Services Combined Competitive (Preliminary) Examination, 2014 held on April 24 “have been boldly declared invalid by the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC) and all candidates have been awarded full marks for these invalidated questions.”
It informed that 16 questions out of a total of 200 questions constitute 8 %. “It is a competitive exam, where the best are to be selected and an academic test for awarding pass marks to those who cross the minimum merit bench mark,” the ANSAM asserted. It stated that instead of a possibility of scoring 100%, the candidates have been made to compete for only 92% marks reducing the competitive area by 8%.
The ANSAM further lamented that the MPSC had declared the result in 2 phases - the first on May 14 declaring 470 candidates as qualified and the second with an addendum on May 16, whereby another 290 candidates were “also declared qualified”. “What was the sanctity of the declaration of the 470 candidates as qualified in the first notification and what was the consideration in declaring the other 290 candidates in the next?” the ANSAM questioned.
It then demanded that the whole examination in question “be scrapped and a fresh exam conducted at the earliest as the career and future of meritorious candidates are at stake.”
