PSAN calls for changes in NPSC

Dimapur, September 8 (MExN): The Public Service Aspirants of Nagaland (PSAN) has called for changes in the Nagaland Public Services Commission (NPSC).  

In a list of six demands, it asked the Government of Nagaland to “minimize the viva marks from the current 75 to 50.”  

This demand was made after the PSAN observed discrepancies in the way candidates were being awarded marks by the NPSC in the Viva-Voce examination.  

Further, it asked the Government to “Set minimum and maximum benchmarks of awarding marks to candidates in Viva-Voce.”  

The PSAN also called for appointment of retired IAS and NCS officials or professors as NPSC members.  

It asked for an “immediately stop” to the “rampant appointment of politicians and bureaucrats as NPSC members.”  

The aspirants called for declaration of marks for both mains and Viva on the day of final result declaration, in line with UPSC.  

And finally, that the “mains marks should be kept out of NPSC members' knowledge so as to ward off any chance of manipulation by the NPSC members.”  

This was decided in an emergency meeting of the PSAN Core Team Members on September 5, and informed of its decisions in a press note from its Media Cell today.  

The meeting decided that “there is an urgency to revamp NPSC's kitchen before the PSAN takes on any other departments, and therefore, the house resolved to oppose tooth and nail the whole process of NPSC examination system.” 

According to PSAN, the declaration of written and viva-voce marks by NPSC office on NPSC (non-technical) examination result 2015, “brought to light an overwhelming manipulation and malpractice in Viva-Voce examination by NPSC members.”  

The PSAN has also taken serious note of the practice of alleged favoritism by NPSC members and appealed “free, fair and open marking system based on merit rather than on tribal lines.”