Editor,
I write this letter as an AE (civil) aspirant weighed down by a question that refuses to leave my conscience: why is the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission allowing the lives of aspirants to remain suspended indefinitely?
The assistant engineer selection examination was advertised collectively for civil, mechanical, and electrical departments and was conducted together. Yet, while the results for mechanical and electrical branches have been declared, the AE (civil) results remain withheld. As per the APPSC examination calendar, this withholding has been linked to the outcome of pending writ petitions.
What must be stated clearly is that more than six months have already passed since these writ petitions were filed. This delay did not begin with the declaration of partial results – it began long before. If six months are insufficient to meaningfully address or expedite a legal matter of such importance, one is compelled to ask: what are the commission’s legal counsels doing? Why does the system appear paralysed when the futures of thousands are at stake?
Equally distressing is the silence from the leadership. What role are the members and the chairman playing when it appears that only the secretary is visible in day-to-day functioning? Does no one else feel the moral responsibility of this delay? Does no one’s heart burn at the thought of aspirants growing older, poorer, and more hopeless with each passing month?
Civil engineering aspirants have already endured nearly eight years since the last AE (civil) examination. Many are now overage, unemployed, and mentally exhausted. This uncertainty has turned preparation into punishment and hope into anxiety.
The recent film ‘Homebound’ reminds us that when decisions come too late, people are left stranded forever. Likewise, when these results are finally declared, it may already be too late for some aspirants – their eligibility gone, their strength spent, their dreams quietly buried.
This is no longer a routine administrative delay. It is an urgent human crisis.
I also humbly request the Gauhati High Court, Itanagar Bench, to consider the gravity of this matter and deliver a verdict at the earliest possible date. Justice delayed here does not remain abstract – it destroys lives in silence.
This letter is not written to accuse, but to beg for urgency, empathy, and accountability. Aspirants are not files. They are lives waiting to move forward.
A waiting AE (civil) aspirant