By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: Umroi MLA, George Lyngdoh, has petitioned Director General of Assam Rifles Lt. Gen Sukhdeep Sangwan, expressing dissatisfaction over the manner in which the ongoing recruitment is being conducted for the applicants of Meghalaya by the Staff Selection Committee (SSC) and supported by the Assam Rifles.
In the petition, Lyngdoh stated that the recruitment process of SSC started with the online entry of applications and the interested candidates were called for verification of their documents prior to the physical examination and other recruitment procedures.
He, however, said that there are anomalies in the process as applicants have been outrightly rejected due to minor date-entry errors in their online-generated applications, and mere spelling mistakes or inadvertent errors in their online applications have been made a reason for rejection of their applications.
He lamented that the presiding officers of Assam Rifles engaged for the verification have accepted the data in online applications as the basis of verifying against the original document rather than the reverse, even as he added that the applicants are even being denied a chance to explain their case.
“Computerisation should be used as a tool to facilitate the recruitment not to deny eligible applicants of their chances,” he said, adding that this practice is a violation of natural justice and a conspiracy to deny youths from Meghalaya to even appear for the recruitment process.