 Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 16: Alleging large scale favoritism, nepotism and corruption in the process of selections conducted by various recruitment agencies, including SSB and PSC for govt. jobs, Jammu and Kashmir national Panther Party held protest demonstration against Government.
The protest led by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister has sought change in recruitment policy for state govt. jobs by abolition of the interview system and making selections on the basis of academic merit as repeatedly assured by the PM as well. He said that there were several instances where process of interview was abused and merit subverted by awarding disproportionate marks to the tail-enders.
He said that it was established that helmsman who appoint their favourites as members of the recruitment agencies and then use the said members for getting favours for their blue eyed candidates in the viva voce thus vitiating the sanctity of the entire selection process. Besides he said, the intervention of top bureaucrats and Ministers in the selection process has become a routine feature of all selections, creating great disillusionment and unrest amongst the educated unemployed youth.
He said that though the BJP led govt. at the centre had announced abolition of interview for all non-gazetted posts but ironically the BJP partnered govt. in J&K issued a notification last week mandating oral test (interview) for all such services which was to be held after written test. He was addressing a protest dharna organized by the Panthers Party at exhibition ground Jammu seeking abolition of Viva voca in the process of selections to govt. jobs. The dharna was also attended and addressed by Yash Paul Kundal State President Young Panthers besides others.
Yash Paul Kundal, while calling for the indulgence of the PM as well as the CM of the J&K state said that interview process should be dispensed with while holding selections to 6000 posts recently advertized by the J&K State govt. He further demanded the extension of facility of self-attestation of certificates by the educated unemployed youth in the State of J&K as the students and unemployed youth in the J&K state were still required to attest their degree from Gazetted officers.
Those who spoke and participated in the demonstration included Rajesh Padgotra, Manju Singh, Sham Gorkha, Gagan Pratap, Shankar Chib, Manoj Gupta, Neeraj Gupta, Arun Khajuria, Asha Rani, Ravinder Jamwal, Anil Rakhwal, Nirmal Kishore, Inder Pal, Rajeshwar Singh, Mohan Lal. |
