PSC controversial, BJP govt responsible: Cong

Raipur, June 22, 2013

Congress on Saturday said BJP government was responsible for series of controversies in public service commission (PSC). “The commission has failed to conduct controversy-free exam ever since BJP came to power in state,” said Congress spokesperson Sushil Anand Shukla.

He said it was ruling party’s ten year-quiescence that deprived an entire generation of youth from government job that crossed maximum age limit to appear in the PSC exams.

“Controversies continue to haunt the commission right from appointment of chairman to members to selection of ineligible candidates to questions being asked out of syllabus in exams. The latest controversy is of scaling system which the PSC has adopted to benefit a few,” he pointed.

He alleged that the commission was doing injustice to other candidates on pretext of scaling system. He said the PSC implemented the system without understanding its principles. 

“The commission has failed to maintain transparency and sacrificed future of several talented students just to benefit a handful,” he charged.

“Last year, the government constituted a hearing committee to directly interfere into the commission’s affairs, however the panel failed to makeover PSC’s image. The government actually never intended to smoothen commission’s activities and bring transparency in it,” he said.

“The apprehensions of Congress that the government, by interfering into PSC’s activities, could affect exam results proved to be correct as controversy sparked off over implementation of scaling system to give numbers to the candidates,” he indicated.

He said for BJP government honesty, educational qualification and skilled administrative capability had never been parameters to select chairman and members of the commission, but it rather give preference to the criteria like loyalty towards a particular political party, an individual and political appeasement. “The commission has also become hub to rehabilitate favourite retired officials who fit in BJP’s criteria and hence is deeply mired in controversies,” he said.