Just at the time when educated unemployed youths of the state have started dreaming that the newly formed Arunachal Pradesh Staff Selection Board (APSSB) will play a stellar role in realising their aspirations of getting a coveted state government job, the news of alleged irregularities in the recruitment process will surely bring great disheartenment and despair. It has spread like wildfire and had been covered with importance by the national media too. Quite naturally there will be wide public reprimand with multiple questions chasing all-why a public institution with such huge responsibilities be made susceptible to corruption, that too when it has just commenced operations and the current recruitment exercise their maiden one? Even if everything now stands on level of allegations, going by the visuals that have emerged, it’s a clear suggestion that there certainly had been a foul play and only an unbiased and thorough probe can dig out the truth.
By now, everyone has got a first-hand idea of what had happened. A candidate had submitted an OMR sheet in written part of LDC & JSA etc Recruitment Exam conducted by APSSB without attempting a single question and to the utter bewilderment of all, had qualified for the next stage! This, among a host of other possibilities hints at a stark and raw instance of corruption and victims had been the youths, Arunachal’s future who had toiled hard with hope of cracking the exam exclusively based on their merit. Many other questions are also circling around this case, which are- is it the only one or are there many more in the lot, how much money has been involved as the ‘purchase-price’ of the job(s), how lengthy is the ‘chain’ and who are the ‘stakeholders’ involved in it, immediate or remote and so on. The demand for exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of his despicable act is getting louder and as an immediate face-saving exercise, an investigation has been ordered with assurance that “those involved will not be spared, no matter how influential they may be.” Nothing can be more  greater a neutraliser of the current agony and frustration of the examinees if this actually happens and happens fast and not linger for time infinity.
That what has happened must have no excuses, but, it can come as a blessing in disguise since it has given the opportunity for the current government to make sure that APSSB, as an institution of extraordinary public importance must be shielded from the invasion of corruption from all its future recruitment ventures. The said exam must be cancelled immediately also with announcement of new dates.
The malefactors must be punished and their ‘colours’, if any, would not be allowed to create obstacles in a fair probe. 

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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