Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Aug 4: Alleging large scale malpractices, bungling, nepotism and corruption in the process of selections conducted by various recruitment agencies, including SSB for Govt jobs, National Panthers Party activists led by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman of the party held a protest demonstration at Exhibition Ground here today.
While addressing the protesting party workers, Harsh Dev Singh said that a recent judgment of State Vigilance Commission has indicated fraudulent selections at the cost of merit and recommended abolition of interviews for Class III and Class IV posts. Hailing the verdict of SVC, he regretted that while the interviews for Class III and Class IV posts were abolished in rest of the country from January 1st this year , J&K Government remained silent on the issue. He demanded an immediate change in recruitment policy in the State.
NPP leader said that there were several instances where process of interview was abused and merit subverted by awarding disproportionate marks to the tail-enders. He said that it was established that helmsman who appoint their favourites as members of the recruitment agencies and then use the said members for getting favours for their blue eyed candidates in the viva voce thus, vitiating the sanctity of the entire selection process. Besides he said, the intervention of top bureaucrats and Ministers in the selection process has become a routine feature of all selections, creating great embitterment and unrest amongst the educated unemployed youth.
Former MLA Yashpal Kundal said that nepotism, large scale corruption and other malpractices have become a general phenomenon during the selection of the candidates in the interviews for the various category of posts. He cited several instances of wrong doings and bungling in the interviews conducted by SSB and other recruitment agencies for various posts .
Prominent among those who participated included Rajesh Padgotra, Paramjit Singh Marshall, Gagan Pratap, Sham Gorkha, Nirmal Kishore, Sanjeev Verma, Khajoor Singh.
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