3 weeks ago
Mizoram PSC postpones recruitment exams amid student agitation
There is a government office in Mizoram that helps choose people for government jobs by holding exams.
A group of students is unhappy with how this office works.
The students stood outside the office with signs and did not let the workers go inside.
Because of this, the office could not do its normal work.
The office decided to delay the exams for now, with no new date set.
The exams that are delayed are for some government jobs called Group C posts.
The exam papers were already prepared but could not be handed out.
The protest started on Monday and continued into Tuesday.
The office says the delay happened because of the disruption at its premises.
The Mizoram Public Service Commission (MPSC) has indefinitely postponed several ongoing recruitment processes.
Members of the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (ZPM) students' organisation have been picketing outside the MPSC office since Monday.
Picketers have been preventing staffers from entering the commission premises.
The agitation entered its second day on Tuesday.
Group C examinations are likely affected as question papers could not be distributed.
- Who
- The Mizoram Public Service Commission (MPSC) and members of the Mizo Zirlai Pawl (ZPM) students' organisation.
- What
- The MPSC indefinitely postponed recruitment exams and related activities due to the students' picketing.
- Where
- At the Mizoram Public Service Commission office in Mizoram.
- When
- Announced on Tuesday, the second day of the agitation that began Monday.
- Why
- Because students picketing over the commission's functioning prevented staffers from entering, so question papers could not be distributed.
Key facts
- Commission
- Mizoram Public Service Commission (MPSC)
- Agitating organisation
- Mizo Zirlai Pawl (ZPM)
- Action taken
- Indefinite postponement of recruitment exams and deferral of scheduled programmes
- Picketing began
- Monday
- Agitation day at report
- Second day (Tuesday)
- Affected posts
- Group C posts under various departments
- Immediate cause
- Question papers could not be distributed due to the disruption
Sources
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