Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: Scores of J&K Bank job aspirants today protested outside the bank against the Government’s decision of scrapping the on-going recruitment process of Probationary Officers and Banking Associates notified in 2018.
The aspirants said that they have left their jobs for the preparation of the examination and have also deposited examination fee in crores and that there is no way for the Government to justify the decision of scrapping the process.
“The notification for these posts was out in 2018 and we appeared in the examination a year ago and now they are forcing the J&K Bank to declare the examination as null and void,” an aspirant said.
They said that if the examination was conducted in a free and fair manner by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS), “then what is the point in saying that the IBPS will all over again conduct the examination.”
At least 1.5 lakh aspirants from Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh appeared in the examination. The career of all these aspirants is at stake; for Probationary Officer, the mains was conducted and they were awaiting the interview and all of a sudden the process was quashed.
They said that the IBPS gives out the result in just 15 days, “what addition and alteration are they doing in the results that they are not able to publish the result even after a passage of more than one year now.”
Earlier, the Government had said that the issue (J&K Bank’s recruitment) had been on-going since 2018 and noted that “various legal infirmities had been pointed out in the on-going process.”
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