Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 30: Former minister and NPP chairman Harsh Dev Singh today said that despite the announcement of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and the subsequent directives of Union MoS in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh, to abolish the interviews for recruitment to non- gazetted posts all across the country and to hold such selections on academic merit, Click here to watch video the BJP partnered Government in J&K had preferred to continue with the practice by defying the standing instructions of the Central Govt for its vested interests.
Talking to media-persons here today, Harsh Dev said that the departmental committees of favourite officers had been constituted even by BJP Ministers to hold the Class-IV interviews and thereby get their blue eyed candidates selected in the process. Alleging rampant nepotism, corruption and subversion of merit in the process of selections conducted for the said posts by abusing the process of viva voice, Singh sought immediate abolition of interviews in the selection process to Govt services for Class III and Class IV posts in the State.
Singh reminisced that PM Modi had suggested the abolition of interviews for the recruitment to non- gazetted posts during his Independence Day address from Red Fort on August 15, 2015 and subsequently the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) held by Dr Jitendra Singh Union MoS promptly issued directions to all the States to discontinue the practice from January 1st, 2016. He regretted that while the interviews for Class III and Class IV posts were abolished in rest of the country, J&K Government ignored the issue.
Anguished over the massive fraudulent selections to the non- gazetted posts in the State, Harsh Dev divulged that there were several instances where process of interview was abused and merit subverted by awarding disproportionate marks to the tail-enders.
“Such manipulated selections were rampant in all the departments including Education, Health, Animal & Sheep Husbandry, Social Welfare, Sericulture, KVIB and above all there were reports that several arbitrary and whimsical selections had been made in several other departments by flouting all norms and guidelines of the recruitment policy”, Harsh Dev maintained.
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