Shillong, July 30: The Khasi Students’ Union (KSU) on Tuesday served a 48 hours ultimatum to the Meghalaya Public Service Commission (MPSC) to publish the marks of the MCS (Prelims) examinations and to constitute an independent inquiry into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment.

The demand was made after the union was not satisfied with the Commission’s clarification for MCS (Prelims) Examination to the Union and the public on July 26.

In a letter shot to the MPSC chairman here, KSU employment cell chairman Reuben Najiar said, “The Union demands that marks of the MCS (Prelims) Examinations should published and independent inquiry may be made.”

“(We also demand) clarification be made in regards to the missing candidates as per the ratio for personal interview of MPS and if found faulty, the Commission should immediately rectify the errors and call upon more qualified candidates that should have been called for the personal interview of MPS as based in the advertisement; and Justification to be given for selecting 2 candidates for the post of statistical officer which was basically for 1 (one) candidate under A.H & Veterinary Department and immediate cancellation of the result of the other candidate, if found faulty,” he said while adding that “The Union appeals that the above-mentioned demands are to be met within 48 hours, failing to which the Union shall take prompt action.”

The union in its letter had stated that firstly, in regards to the Meghalaya Civil Services, it was clarified that a petition was filed on the 25th of January, 2024 for submission of answer key and the same was furnished on the 6th of February, 2024.

It also pointed out does the MPSC has a criterion for allowing the candidates to challenge the answer key, if yes then why was the answer key not made public for candidates to challenge prior to the released of the prelims result and if no, then why did MPSC accept such a petition in the first place.

“Then, it was also clarified that based on the submission of the answer key, it was challenged that there were 3 (three) wrong answers on it and the same was found to be true by the Commission.

So, if the original answers are faulty, and after being reviewed there are changes which led to the selection of the 62 candidates then it would also mean that the candidates who have been selected previously would have secured a wrong answer(s) which should means that they may not be able to qualify the said written examination but there is no list of any candidates being deduce from the main examination. Also, there is bound to be changes in the cut-off marks but none is the case,” the letter said.

Referring to the advertisement dated 18th July, 2023, the KSU said, “It was mentioned in PARA 8 that “candidates who will be called to appear for the Main Examination shall not be more than 15 (fifteen) times the number of vacancies declared. Thus, with the total of 35 vacancies advertised, total number of candidates to appear in the mains examinations should be 525, but now the number has risen up to 642 candidates making a mockery of the Commission own self-imposed rule.”

“The Commission must stop justifying its act of incompetency at the highest level and deny any facts of it not deviating from the normal process, because it is utmost clear that the process of conducting the examination has deviated and the Commission failed to handled it responsibly and with that the allegations of nepotism and favouritism goes hand in hand,” it stated.

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