Agartala, Aug 1 (FN Bureau) Tripura police have arrested five residents of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who appeared for an interview at the BSF Tripura Frontier headquarter, possessing a Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) of the state. There has been an allegation that, in connivance with a section of top-level bureaucrats hailing from other states, a large number of outsiders were able to manage PRC from here to secure a job in the Tripura quota. The youth and student wings of the opposition CPI-M, Congress, and TIPRA Motha warned on Tuesday to launch a massive protest seeking action against the government officers who were involved in issuing fake certificates to outsiders and demanded to secure the interest of the local people in government jobs at all levels. Besides, opposition parties and the ruling BJP MLAs have been demanding a crackdown against the accused, but the state administration has ignored it. But it resurfaced last week when locals detained an outside job aspirant from the capital complex area with a false PRC of Tripura.
The locals complained that every day a large number of unemployed youths from outside the state attend the interview for the post of Central Security Forces through the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) under a reserved quota for Tripura. Police said during the interview process for SSC-GD at BSF Shalbagan campus, the unemployed youths of Tripura on Monday managed to detain three youths from Bihar and two from UP, and all of them also have genuine PRTC issued by different SDM offices through bribery, though none of them are actual residents of Tripura. The Officer-in-Charge (OC) of the NCC police station, Sushanta Deb, said that after the chaotic situation inside the BSF’s Shalbagan campus, police rushed to the spot and brought all five youths who were carrying Tripura PRC. He said that police are investigating the incident, and interrogation is going on about how they collected PRTC from Tripura and why they are participating in the interview process, which has been reserved for Tripura domicile. They are being interrogated as to where they live in Tripura, including their birth certificate, and where they have collected proof of their documents.
They will be produced before the court seeking their remand to crackdown on the racket, Deb stated. Earlier, a specific FIR had been lodged last week, based on which another youth from Bihar was arrested who was carrying Tripura PRC during the interview at Gokulnagar BSF campus here, and an investigation is going on,” Deb pointed out, adding that an alert has been issued across the state against the holders of such documents. Recently, the Tripura government, in a significant decision, has made the Permanent Resident of Tripura Certificate compulsory for any kind of state government job after finding it difficult to offer jobs to the selected candidates of Groups C and D as most of them are outside the state. Former BJP Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb evaded the Tripura PRC for the government job and opened it to all-India candidates despite protests and objections.