Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 10: Aspirants of the J&K Police Sub-Inspector (SI) post today staged a protest seeking age bar relaxation in the recently advertised around 800 vacancies across the Union Territory of J&K.
Scores of aspirants assembled in the Press Enclave and held a silent protest and said the age bar has been kept 18-28 years while the same is much higher in various states and UTs outside J&K.
“These posts were to be advertised in the year 2018 but were not due to various reasons such as abrogation of Article 370 and then the COVID-19, so in that, few more years were wasted and several candidates have been rendered over-age as the set age-bar,” said Muhammad Hussain, an aspirant from Karnah.
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The aspirants said that the Government used to state that the rules in vogue outside J&K will be implemented in the UT, “but nothing of that sort ever happened, if we see, there are states that have a much higher age bar for such posts and a person does get few chances to apply for it, but here, only one chance is possible,” the aspirants rued.
The aspirants said that there are around 20,000 aspirants who are facing issues due to the set age bar for the posts of SI in the J&K Police.
“We appeal the LG Manoj Sinha to enhance the age bar to 21-35 years on the lines of the relaxation given to the aspirants in the JKAS exam,” they said.
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