Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar 17: In view of reports of job scams hitting the headlines of various media channels every other day, Panther activists led by Harsh Dev Singh, assembled at Jantar-Mantar in New Delhi and tried to take out protest march towards the Parliament.
As protesting Panthers marched towards Parliament, Delhi Police swung into action and detained them. However, a few along with Harsh Dev Singh managed to reach near the Parliament and held a protest demonstration there. The protesting Panthers sought judicial inquiry into all the recruitment scams during the last few years.
Addressing the media persons on the occasion, Harsh Dev Singh alleged that UT of J&K has earned the most dubious notoriety in employment scandals during the last few years. While the Govt failed to fill up the posts in various deptts in a fair and transparent manner, the culture of fake, backdoor and other paid appointments grew by leaps and bounds, he said. “The recent past witnessed large scale retrenchments, of even the regularly engaged Govt employees while the new UT saw the resultant vacancies being put on sale by the various recruitment bodies through blacklisted agencies,” rued Harsh and endorsed the demand of agitating youth to disengage the APTECH company hired for making recruitments in the UT.
Alleging the commission of biggest recruitment scandals in BJP-PDP rule, Mr. Singh said that more than 4000 SPOs were engaged in 2017-18 through backdoor without following any procedure while several hundreds of backdoor appointments were made in Industries Deptt and its allied corporations during 2015-18 with none to take cognizance despite public outcries.
Pointing towards his short stint of three years as Education Minister, Harsh Dev said that he had made selections of 35000 youth as RET with not a single finger having been raised on the floor of the Assembly or outside.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Ashri Devi (DDC member), Sudesh Dogra, Gagan Pratap Singh besides others.
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