Job aspirants of F&ES Deptt stage protest

Job aspirants of Fire and Emergency Services Department during a protest demonstration in Jammu. —Excelsior/Rakesh
Job aspirants of Fire and Emergency Services Department during a protest demonstration in Jammu. —Excelsior/Rakesh

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Mar 6: Job aspirants, who had applied for various posts in the Fire and Emergency Services, today held a protest demonstration here demanding the Jammu and Kashmir administration to make public the report of the inquiry committee formed to probe alleged irregularities in the recruitment process.

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The protesting youth holding banners and placards assembled near Press Club Jammu and raised slogans in support of their demand. “I am a victim of injustice by the Fire and Emergency Services Department. We applied for the posts in 2012 but it was found that there was a ‘scam’. Then we applied again in 2018 and again a ‘scam’ was found. Last year again another ‘scam’ was found,” one of the protesters said.
He said the administration had formed a three-member panel headed by Additional Chief Secretary Home R K Goyal to probe the alleged irregularities in December last year. “The committee was given one month to submit the report and now three months have passed but the report has not come,” he added and appealed the administration to make the report public.
Other protesters also expressed similar concern and urged upon the concerned authorities to come out with the report and a final decision on the issue so that their wait may come to an end.