Police recruitment case
SHILLONG: The MPSC has decided to initiate departmental proceedings against its staff for the alleged mismatch in the marks allotted to a job applicant.
The job aspirant, Millon Ch Momin, had filed the petition in the High Court of Meghalaya doubting the nature of recruitment for police personnel by MPSC.
In response to a news report in this regard, MPSC chairman L.M Sangma, in a statement issued here on Friday, said the decision on disciplinary action against the staff was communicated to the State government.
Sangma said the Commission in the past had issued show-cause to the staff who had committed the typing mistake while uploading the marks in the MPSC website in December 2014. Moreover, the Commission had also censured the staff though there was no mala fide intention as it was an act of human error, Sangma said.
He said the mistake was even declared and admitted by MPSC in the affidavit in opposition field in the Court.
However, the Commission, in a meeting held on December 6, agreed to initiate disciplinary proceedings.
Commenting further on the disciplinary action, Sangma said the government agreed, promptly approved and communicated officially the selection of the enquiry officer to the rank of Deputy Secretary.
“This action by the Commission has been taken as a mechanism to streamline the functioning of MPSC and to create a professional working atmosphere in MPSC, to avoid such mistakes being made in future and more importantly to instill faith in the public that there was no manipulation of marks in the recruitment of MPS officer,” he added.
Sangma said the candidate who filed the case against MPSC was shown his actual interview marks by the Commission but instead he chose to file a case against the MPSC claiming that the Commission had manipulated the marks.
The MPSC chief also said the expert member of the interview panel for recruitment of MPS officers, whose score sheets were under scanner in the court of Single Judge, has made known that the marks were entered and eraser was used by him and that even though the marks were written with pencil and pen there was no irregularity.
“The same marks were written in pen and pencil by him and that there was absolutely no tampering or manipulation of marks by MPSC,” Sangma said.