The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Monday directed the Manipur authorities and the Workers Choice Fee (SSC) to acquire directions in a petition by the Manipur-based Kuki College students’ Organisation searching for that Churuchandpur be reinstated as a venue for presidency recruitment examinations for the remaining tutorial yr.
The bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela took up the matter and saved it for consideration on October 16. The petitioner-organisation, represented by advocate Rudrajit Ghosh, submitted that Churachandpur had been a venue for exams carried out by SSC for many years and had continued to be a venue for different Central government-conducted recruitment exams even after the ethnic violence commenced final yr, however SSC has now “arbitrarily and whimsically” eliminated Churachandpur as an examination venue from its internet portals for the upcoming examinations scheduled within the current tutorial yr in addition to the forthcoming tutorial yr.
With the removing of Churachandpur as a venue, the petition submits that “over 500 candidates from the Kuki-Zo tribal communities are left with just one examination centre inside their state” in Imphal, because of which those that had earlier opted for Churachandpur as their check venue “are actually compelled to journey over 300 kilometres of treacherous mountain terrain to Aizawl, Mizoram”.
SSC issued a discover on its web site on September 4 stating that the Mixed Graduate Degree Examination (Tier-1) 2024 is not going to be carried out in Churachandpur and Ukhrul “because of the prevailing legislation and order scenario in Manipur.” The petition, nonetheless, goes on to spotlight that exams have been being carried out with Churachandpur as a centre till July this yr.
Aside from searching for reinstatement of Churachandpur as an examination venue, the petitioner-organisation is alternatively additionally searching for that the authorities, together with SSC, make mandatory preparations “to allow tribal college students residing within the hill districts of Manipur to journey out-of-state to Aizawl” to write down their exams.
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