Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 18: The selected candidates for Jail Warden today staged a protest demonstration outside Press Club here in support of their demand of releasing final selection list.
The protesting candidates raised slogans against the concerned authorities demanding immediate release of final selection list.
“We have been striving for the release of final list for last four years but unfortunately the concerned authorities turned deaf ear towards their genuine demand”, they said, adding most of the aspirants had already crossed upper age limit and rests were at the brink of it.
The protestors alleged that their repeated requests to Government and concerned officers of the department remained 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 State Government is adopting delaying tactics in releasing the final selection list.
One of the protesting candidates informed that about 41182 unemployed youth had applied for the post of Jail Wardens advertised in local dailies in 2005 and 1247 candidates were shortlisted for the interview, which was held in September 2010. However, even after more than three years since the conduct of interviews, the selection list is still awaited, and most of them are becoming overaged, he added.
The protesting candidates urged Governor NN Vohra to intervene personally to get fulfilled their demands.
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