Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 18: Up in arms against unprecedented delay in release of the final selection list, the candidates who had appeared in the interviews for the post of Warden in Jail Police of the Prison Department held a protest demonstration near Press Club, here today.
Shouting slogans and carrying banners, the protesting candidates were demanding release of the final selection list, which was pending for the last more than three years due to the reasons best known to the concerned authorities.
The protesters threatened to go on hunger strike from November 11 if their final selection list is not issued by then.
Pankaj Sharma, who led the protest, informed that about 40000 unemployed youth had applied for the post, advertised in local dailies in 2005 and 1200 candidates were short listed for the interview, which was held in the month of September 2010. However, he added, even after more than three years since the interviews, the final selection list has not yet been released.
“We approached the Chief Minister as well as his Ministers and senior leaders of the opposition parties also but got nothing except lip service,” Pankaj Sharma rued adding that a number of the candidates were nearing overaged.
The protest demonstration was addressed by Ashwani Kumar, Sunny Gupta, Romi Sharma and others who urged the Chief Minister to personally look into the matter for getting the selection list released.
“No recruitment has taken place in the Prison Department since 1995 and there are more than 2000 vacancies. Due to these vacancies, the department is facing acute shortage of manpower but the Government is delaying final selection of the candidates,” they said.
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