Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 17: Alleging large scale malpractices, nepotism, corruption and regional discrimination in the process of selections conducted by PSC, SSB and other recruiting agencies for Govt jobs, a large number of National Panthers Party (NPP) activists held protest demonstration and dharna here today.
A large number of NPP activists led by party chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh, assembled at Exhibition Ground near Press Club here in the morning and started protest seeking disbanding of present PSC besides abolition of interviews in the recruitment for non-gazetted posts.
Expressing indignation over the recent discriminatory selections against the posts of Assistant Professors in Higher Education Department, Harsh Dev accused BJP for failing to address the most significant issue facing Jammu youth and shamefully surrendering itself before the Kashmir centric leadership for the power avarice. He alleged huge regional bias in recruitments made by PSC for the posts of Lecturers and Assistant Professors in various disciplines during the last two and a half years.
He said that the select lists revealed abysmally low share of Jammu region in the said recruitments and demonstrated the highly parochial nature of selections. He made a particular mention of the recently published select list of Asstt Professors in the discipline of Economics in which mere 4 posts went to Jammu region out of 27 and the rest were dished out to Kashmir. He regretted that earlier select lists also figured that out of 58 candidates in Commerce, 13 belonged to Jammu region, 9 candidates out of 34 in History, 7 candidates out of 26 in Physics, 9 in Psychology out of 27 and likewise in other subjects.
Singh also pointed out highly biased selections in Eco and Statistics, wherein out of 26 candidates selected for Junior Statistical Assistants only one belonged to Jammu region. He further divulged that in Health and Medical Education Department, out of 123 selections of consultants in Radiology, Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Orthopaedics, Gynaecology, Pathology and Paediatrics only 23 belonged to Jammu region. Likewise in RMSA select list for special Education Teachers released yesterday he divulged that out of 52 candidates, only 14 belonged to Jammu region. He cautioned the State Government and the mandated leaders of Jammu region to ponder over the grave concern of the Jammu youth by addressing discrimination issue and notify the abolition of the interviews for the non-gazetted posts without delay or else get ready to face the public fury.
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