Blunders of Manipur civil services exam unveiled!

The Manipur civil service combined competitive examination, 2016 are suddenly found surrounded by many irregularities after being recently concluded. The case has come into light after a couple of unqualified candidates filed an RTI application demanding their answer sheets. The main exam was given by 1,130 candidates.

The underlined examination was carried out in September last year by the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC). Those, who wanted a revision have set up a body named ‘Group of aspirants MPSC Manipur’. This group claimed that the process of evaluation was carried out in a “hasty and haphazard manner”. Also, the result came out in a mere period of 10 days from when the exam was conducted.

When the matter was inspected deeply, it all lit up like a Christmas tree. Tampering of marks, wrong tabulation, missing signatures of examiners on answer scripts, different versions of signatures of a single examiner and non-allocation of marks were a part of the discoveries made. In fact, in a conference in Imphal on July 26, all of the 20 answer scripts that went for re-evaluation were made available to the media.

The body said that even additional answer sheets were supplied to some candidates in violation of rules. The convener of the group Robertson Sorokhaibam said:

Sensing anomalies in the evaluation process, we had filed a writ petition before the Manipur high court in October, seeking to quash the entire examination.

As we have now detected such massive anomalies in just 20 answer sheets, we will file a fresh case before the high court with a prayer to quash the whole examination process and conduct a fresh one.