Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 18: Government has set a process in motion to clear the backlog of vacancies pending since 2008 in various departments of the State for which about three lakh candidates have applied.
Addressing a news conference, Secretary, Service Selection Board (SSB) Shabir Ahmad Raina said there was a backlog of about 4500 posts pending with the SSB since the year 2008. “The Board has decided to clear the backlog and has set a process in motion to appoint meritorious candidates in various departments in a time-bound manner,” he said.
Raina said the SSB started conducting the exams for recruitment of these posts since yesterday and the whole process would be completed in four months. “There are more than four lakh aspirants for these posts. However, there are court interventions in some categories of posts for which we cannot take the examination. The rest of about three lakh aspirants will take part in these exams over two months and the whole process will be completed in three-four months,” he said.
He said these vacancies are pending since 2008 under various notifications issued by the board. “Some of these posts were advertised in 2008. The board has issued 908 notifications for these posts over the years and exams will be conducted for all these notifications issued till June 13 this year,” he said.
Raina said there were 16813 total candidates for JE Level categories and out of those, 11879 were present and 4934 absent. “For JSA Level categories, there were 8823 total candidates and out of those, 5785 were present and 3038 were present. Similarly, we had 38651 total candidates for Metric Level candidates and out of those, 6675 were present and 31976 were present,” he said.
He said there were clear directions from the Government to clear the backlog and then complete recruitment for nearly 4000 other posts on fast-track basis. The SSB Secretary, who has been recently appointed, assured of impartiality in these exams and said that only genuine candidates would be selected.
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