Dimapur, Nov 6 (MExN): The Naga Students Federation (NSF), peeved at what it stated is the state government’s ‘miserable’ failure in applying redress in the Nagaland Public Services Commission (NPSC) bribery scandal, has issued an ultimatum demanding the removal of the present NPSC Chairman on or before November 12, 2006 and also invite the CBI to take charge of investigations into the matter.
“…the Federation has given sufficient time to the government to prove its commitment and improve the standard of the premier institution but failed miserably. The Federation wishes to draw your sincere attention for early intervention and removal of the present incumbent Chairman of NPSC on or before 12th November 2006 for being indifferent towards the public issue” the ultimatum addressed to the Chief Minister of Nagaland stated. The Federation sternly warned of an own course of action “if it fails to redress this genuine human problem” and that consequences, if any arises, shall not be placed on the students.
In the backdrop of the attempted bribery scandal, the NSF demanded a CBI’s inquiry into NPSC dealings inclusive of the past 20 years and that in spite of the “clarion call” discrepancies and anomalies continue to surface, the NSF lamented. The ultimatum highlighted these points: In 2005, a lady candidate was declared EAC but later denied to her, and replaced by another candidate who secured 19 marks higher “thereby humiliated and demoralized her”; an over aged candidate – by 2 years, 5 months and 25 days as on January 1, 2005 was allowed to appear the 2005 NPSC examinations “by the Chairman and Controller of Examinations”. Later, it was found that there was an error in his surname, his actual surname being “Longchar” but notified as “Walling”; in the recent NPSC results (2006) a candidate was declared as Deputy Superintendent of Police on October 10, 2006 but was declared Upper Divisional Assistant (UDA) ‘that subsequently affected four other candidates’.
In site of these facts, the NPSC chairman failed to initiate any measures to check “such mess” but considered them as human errors, thereby hushing them up, the ultimatum stated. “…and we found that he absconds whenever such serious issue surface related to the examinations conducted and thereby encourages the defaulters to continue under the guise of human error or clerical mistakes” the NSF stated while reminding of the Federation’s rejection of the government’s earlier decision of instituting the State Vigilance Commission (SVC) for investigations. However, when the findings came about, the government retracted its assurances “to prove to the people” and chose to remain indifferent, the NSF lamented while highlighting some of the Vigilance’s reports.
