IMPHAL, Nov 29 - All Tribal Students Union Manipur (ATSUM) has lampooned the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC) saying the Commission is �degrading itself to be a bunch of bigots who could not do anything in the right spirit�.
The apex tribal student body in Manipur was irked by the recently declared results for the principals of colleges recruitment conducted by the MPSC. ATSUM demanded that the recently declared recruitment results of the principals of colleges for the State should be nullified �for it has brazenly failed to follow the reservation policy which is the sacrosanct right of the tribals of Manipur�. It also demanded the abolishion of the MPSC �since it has become the hot-bed of controversy, incompetence, corruption, favouritism and nepotism�.
ATSUM alleged that �this is not the first time the MPSC has found itself enmeshed in controversies in its recruitment process but the irony is that it has become a ritual that in every recruitment process it rakes up more controversies and blunders�.
ATSUM said that the �shallowness� of the MPSC is also evident from the �fact that the time honoured tradition of all recruitment processes which is followed throughout the world where the principle of seniority/departmental promotion is also the norm so as to give incentives to those diligent staff who had already served their respective departments for many faithful years�.
According to ATSUM, it should be known that merit should not be made as the only criteria for recruitment. �If MPSC has got the brain it could have undertaken the recruitment process by both merit and seniority principle and could have been balanced with a breakup ratio of 1/3 in favour of merit system,� it added.