MPSC exam controversy far from over

IMPHAL: Another controversy surfaced  regarding setting of same question paper of the earlier examination for the Manipur Civil Service Combined Competitive (Main) Examination 2012 conducted by Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC), with the Democratic Students’ Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) accused the authority of being corrupt in conducting the most competitive and responsible examination of the State.

This time English literature paper-I question for the MCS combined competitive examination, conducted by MPSC was made a copy of the same question from the same competitive exam of the year 2005, DESAM president LC Santosh told the media at the former’s office here.

The exam was conducted only in the interest of a handful of people including the members, secretary, chairman and exam controller of the commission and not in the interest of the public, Santosh alleged.

The prelim exam of the MPSC exam 2012 was also found with at least seven wrong questions copying out from the Internet and some others with unrelated topics, Santosh said.

He said the DESAM has already banned the said prelim exam and any individual who has appeared in the competitive exam would be helped by the student ody  to fight in the law court against the authority for negligence and added that DESAM would urge the concerned authority to ensure smooth conduct of this examination with proper responsibility in the future.

The Manipur Civil Service Combined Competitive Exam was held on February 6 amidst various controversies involving complaints of misleading answer keys.

As many as 713 candidates registered for the competitive exam, of which 61 candidates failed to turn up for the exam.

The Preliminary Examination for the combined competitive exam was conducted on September 11, 2011 and the results for the same were declared September 24 the same year.