Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 9: Staging protest demonstration in support of their demand of releasing final selection list, the interviews for which were held in the year of 2010, the candidates of Jail Wardens today gave 15 day ultimatum to Government to fulfill commitments before closure of darbar move in Srinagar otherwise they will gherao Civil Secretariat in Jammu.
They appealed to the Chief Minister Mufti Mohd Sayeed to fulfill commitment made with them before election.
Protesters while demanding immediate release of final selection list said that they had been striving for the release of final list for the last four years but unfortunately the concerned authorities were turning deaf ear towards their genuine demand. They further said that most of the aspirants had already crossed the upper age limit and rest was at the brink of it.
They mentioned that CM Mufti Mohd Sayeed and PDP made commitment and promises that their issue will be resolved if came to power but about six months have been passed and no concrete step has been taken by the Government to mitigate their problems. Jail warden appealed to Chief Minister and DG Prison to pay attention towards their issue and resolve forthwith.
The protesters alleged that their repeated requests to concerned officers of the department remained unheard, while a number of candidates were nearing getting overage.
They said despite the fact that no recruitment has taken place in the Prison Department since 1995 and the department is facing acute shortage of manpower with 2000 vacancies, the successive State Governments have been adopting delaying tactics in releasing the final selection list.
“About 41182 unemployed youth had applied for the post of Jail Wardens in 2005 and 1247 candidates were shortlisted for the interview, which was held in September 2010”, they said, adding even after more than three years since the conduct of interviews, the selection list is still awaited.
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