Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 6: Aspirants for the post of Jail Wardens today staged a protest in support of their demands of releasing final selection list, the interviews for which were held in the year of 2010. They however appealed to the Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed to fulfill commitment made with them before election.
Protesters while demanding immediate release of final selection list, said that they had been striving for the release of final list for the last four years but unfortunately, the concerned authorities were paying deaf ear towards their genuine demand. They further said that most of the aspirants had already crossed the upper age limit and rest was at the brink of it.
They mentioned that CM Mufti Mohd Sayeed and his PDP had made commitment and promises that their issue will be resolved if Party comes to power but about six months have passed no concrete step has been taken by the Government to mitigate their problems. They appealed to Chief Minister and DG Prison to pay attention towards the issue and resolve it forthwith.
The protesters alleged that their repeated requests to concerned officers of the Department remain unheard, while a number of candidates were nearing getting overaged.
They said despite the fact that no recruitment has taken place in the Prison Department since 1995 and the Department is facing acute shortage of manpower with 2000 vacancies, the successive State Government was adopting delaying tactics in releasing the final selection list, candidates claimed.
“About 41182 unemployed youth had applied for the post of Jail Wardens in 2005 and 1247 candidates were shortlisted for the interview, which was held in September 2010”, they said, adding, “even after more than three years since the conduct of interviews, the selection list is still awaited, and most of them are getting over-aged.
They declared that if their demands could be conceded by the Government they will re-start their agitation along with the families and will come on roads.
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