Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 13: Coming down heavily on the Public Service Commission (PSC) for overtly indulging in large scale malpractices, nepotism and regional bias in selections to Government services besides persistent blunders in conducting examinations for various Gazetted posts, NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh accused the PSC of perpetuating discrimination against the educated youth of Jammu region while divesting them of their equitable share in selections.
Alleging large scale bias and prejudice against Jammu youth in selections during the last two and a half years, Harsh Dev said that highly biased nature of selections had shaken the faith of the educated youth of the region in the present dispensation as well as in the PSC. He said that the research conducted by the Panthers Party in the respective select lists revealed peanuts share of Jammu region in the said recruitments as compared to Kashmir which was in the obnoxious average ratio of around 10:90. He cautioned the State Public Service Commission to desist from acting as a stooge in the hands of the Kashmir centric BJP-PDP dispensation as the regional bias in selections and the harassment of the underemployed had caused a strong resentment among the Jammu youth which could explode anytime and take an ugly turn.
Severely admonishing the State PSC for its persistent follies and blunders committed in conducting examination for various Gazetted posts and recent KAS preliminary exams in particular, he said that it had come to fore that 24 questions/ answers were wrongly marked in its official key pertaining to Political Science, Zoology and General Studies.
While deploring the incident, he said that it was for the first time in the history that JKPSC would hold the evaluation afresh for the entire preliminary J&K Competitive Service Examination for the cycle year which had subsequently led to the withdrawal of Main exam notification.
Doubting the credibility of the team of experts constituted by the Commission to find the correct answers to the identified disputed questions, he divulged that several aspirants/ deputations from Jammu region had earlier reported to him that the PSC, on several occasions empanelled the experts of its choice to facilitate the selections on extraneous and discriminatory grounds. He regretted that the team of experts might also prove as an ‘eye wash’ in the wake of omissions and commissions done by the recruiting agency.
Lambasting the PSC for losing its sheen and gleam besides public faith, he rued that suspicions were rife among the Jammu based KAS aspirants that the official key was deliberately made by the PSC, so as to exclude them from the competition and divest them of their due share in the State Civil Services.
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