Imphal, June 29 2010: Asserting that a House Committee should be instituted to probe the genuineness or otherwise of the list of selected primary teachers published in a local daily, even before its official announcement, Democratic Students' Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) has claimed that the Committee instituted by the Government and headed by the Chief Secretary to delve into the matter will lack the teeth to unearth the truth.

Addressing a press conference in this connection at its head office today, general secretary of DESAM Angamba Moirangthem pointed out that the select list which was published in a local daily was signed by the then Director of Education (S) M Harekrishna with the approval of the Government.

Maintaining that the select list in question is genuine, Angamba demanded that the Government should take a decision on whether the select list would be implemented or not and to resolve the present issue at the earliest possible.

He recalled that the written test for recruitment of primary teachers to fill up the vacant posts in the Education Department was conducted by the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur on December 22, 2006 .

After failing to announce the result of the written test for a long time, it was finally declared on April 16, 2007 and after three years of announcement of the results of the written test, the DPC was conducted from February 6 to 20, 2009, added the student leader.

Again, after holding back the declaration of the DPC results for a considerable delay time long time, all of a sudden public started talking about the announcement of the result on April 22 this year and some of them even spend the night in the office complex of the Education Directorate to know the results.

But the results had not been put up on the notice board of the Directorate.

In the meantime, the copies of the results reached the hands of the Ministers and bureaucrat officers and they deliberately suppressed announcement of the results on the ground that their candidates were not in the selection list.

However, the same list was published by a local daily.

Angamba said that such conduct of the Government has discouraged the teachers and other concerned individuals who are working for the promotion of education in Manipur.

Stating that corruption in Government recruitment and existence of quotas of the MLAs, Ministers, etc is not something new thing in Manipur, the student leader contended in present case too, the conflict among the MLAs, Ministers and bureaucrats over their respective quotas in recruitment is at the root cause.

So, the decision of the Government to conduct inquiry against the Education Director, Additional Director (Hills) and Additional Director (Valley) is only to cover up the involved MLAs, Ministers and bureaucrats, Angamba asserted, adding that the proposed inquiry would never bring about the truth but rather suppress it. Instead of that a House Committee of the Assembly should be instituted for the inquiry, he demanded.

The vice president of DESAM Wangmayum Islamuddin, who was also present during the press conference, observed that the current issue has once again confirmed that dirty politics of quota sharing among the MLAs, Ministers and bureaucrats in any Government recruitment.

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