Murdering the future of youngsters Sleeping since 2019 ?
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It has to be said. The Government of Manipur sure knows how to kill the aspirations and future of the younger generations and the recent decision to cancel the recruitment process of 907 fresh employees to different posts in the MSPCL and MSPDCL testifies this. About 37,000 candidates are reported to have appeared for the recruitment drive to recruit 907 fresh employees and this was back in 2019. Now for reasons which have not been detailed in the public forum, the said recruitment process has been cancelled. A wait of six years thrown down the gutter and in the process make a joke, a cruel joke on the future of thousands of youngsters. This is not acceptable and can happen only in a place like Manipur, a place where it is not unheard of candidates, who managed to pass a recruitment test, to publicly announce that they made it without paying a cent ! Ludicrous and this happened some time back. No wonder the public perception of an official or a political leader is today increasingly judged through the prism of how the individual concerned, ‘made fresh appointments without taking a dime,’ and clearly the level to which Manipur has fallen can be known from the ugly reality that is in front of everyone but which no one has had the moral compunction to acknowledge publicly. A place where announcements are made via the media that not a dime was spent to get into service and seriously, something is terribly wrong but the crucial question is whether this has registered in the consciousness of the people or not. For now it is the uproar over the cancelled recruitment process in MSPCL and MSPDCL but look further and it could mean the selection process in any Government departments down the years, with even the reputation of the top recruiting body-the Manipur Public Service Commission being torn asunder on more than one occasion. Remember how the Manipur Civil Service examination of 2016 and conducted by the MPSC was cancelled, even as the young successful candidates had started serving as Government officials in the capacity of SDOs and SDPOs. This was not all, for back in 1994 the same examination was cancelled at the intervention of the then Imphal bench of the Gauhati High Court which observed, ‘A drop of poison, poisons the whole glass of milk’. From 1994 to 2016 to 2025 and others in between and clearly something is terribly wrong with the place, the people of which pride themselves as having a history dating back to more than 2000 years ! Clearly the engineering effected to make a farce of Manipur is complete, but has any lesson been learnt ? Not much it seems if one goes by the reaction or response to the decision of the present PR regime to cancel the 2019 recruitment process for there is no talk of fixing responsibility and more curiously there is also no demand that responsibilities should be fixed for playing with the future of the youngsters.
A strapping young man or a comely damsel of 25 in 2019 would now be 31 years old and who has given a thought to the fate of these young people ? Important to also question why the 2019 recruitment process has been cancelled. What are the reasons ? Raj Bhavan and the suited, booted class of people who sit in air conditioned offices and travel through Imphal with the sirens blazing should spell out why the recruitment process has been cancelled. Were there any shortcomings in the conduct of the recruitment process ? And if yes then why did it take six years to find that out ? The Government, whether President’s Rule or a popular Government, has no business to fiddle with the future of the young men and women and if the 2019 examination process is to be cancelled, what about those who handled the finer details of the said examination ? Shouldn’t they also be pulled up, penalised and sent packing, even if they have retired from Government service ? Why hasn’t the Government at Imphal ever given a thought on why so many promising youngsters prefer to job hunt outside the State ? True the Government cannot be expected to provide jobs to everyone, but the fact is, many are not even trying to give something back to the place through their service, since they are not in the position to buy a job ! Spell out the reason why it was felt that the recruitment process in MSPCL/MPSDCL should be cancelled. Spell out if there were any misdemeanour in the conduct of the examination. How about those responsible for conducting the same ? Why should the candidates alone suffer !
A strapping young man or a comely damsel of 25 in 2019 would now be 31 years old and who has given a thought to the fate of these young people ? Important to also question why the 2019 recruitment process has been cancelled. What are the reasons ? Raj Bhavan and the suited, booted class of people who sit in air conditioned offices and travel through Imphal with the sirens blazing should spell out why the recruitment process has been cancelled. Were there any shortcomings in the conduct of the recruitment process ? And if yes then why did it take six years to find that out ? The Government, whether President’s Rule or a popular Government, has no business to fiddle with the future of the young men and women and if the 2019 examination process is to be cancelled, what about those who handled the finer details of the said examination ? Shouldn’t they also be pulled up, penalised and sent packing, even if they have retired from Government service ? Why hasn’t the Government at Imphal ever given a thought on why so many promising youngsters prefer to job hunt outside the State ? True the Government cannot be expected to provide jobs to everyone, but the fact is, many are not even trying to give something back to the place through their service, since they are not in the position to buy a job ! Spell out the reason why it was felt that the recruitment process in MSPCL/MPSDCL should be cancelled. Spell out if there were any misdemeanour in the conduct of the examination. How about those responsible for conducting the same ? Why should the candidates alone suffer !