'Re-conduct State Civil Services exam'

From our correspondent

Itagar, Dec 12: The newly formed steering committee of Aruchal Pradesh Public Service Combined Competitive (Prelims) Examitions (APPSCCE) has demanded re-conduct of APPSCCE (Prelims)-2017 within three months and immediate stepping down of the public service panel’s Chairman on moral grounds.

The demand was raised after the prelimiry exam conducted by Aruchal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) recently ran into controversy with aspirants accusing the Commission of providing erroneous question papers and setting questions from a Pakistan-based website.

Addressing media persons at the Press Club here, RGU Professor ni Bath, while raising serious questions over the creditability of the question papers printed for the examition, said there is every possibility of the question papers being leaked.

“As most of the question papers of the examition were photocopied and some were also tampered with, we cannot deny the possibility of a leak. Moreover, copy-pasting was done while setting up the papers, which is illegal,” Bath said.

Bath, one of the primary members of the steering committee, said it is awful that APPSC has come up with such mistakes. The Commission had got into a major controversy in 2015 after allegation of leakage of question papers during the mains exam.

RGU Professor Ojum Padung, a member of the committee, alleged that there was no moderation done by the APPSC in setting up the papers.

“I do not think the question papers were set by experts. There should be a model while setting questions for Public Service Commission as this exam can make or break the future of many aspirants,” Padun said.

Social activists Patey Tayum and Payi Gyadi also aired their views on the APPSC fiasco.

“Making errors has become a habit for APPSC and this trend should stop once and for all,” Tayum said. Gyadi asked the State government to take a serious stand on the issue. “The defaulters should be booked and punished under crimil offence. This is a serious matter as it involves the future of our youth,” he said.

The other demands of the steering committee include discipliry action against the Controller of Examitions, setting up of an enquiry committee headed by a retired High Court judge or a sitting Sessions judge. The committee threatened to launch a democratic movement and lodge an FIR against the commission if its demands are not met.