Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 11: Demanding 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 in front of the office of Director General Prisons, here today. Raising slogans and carrying placards, the protesting candidates rued that the final selection list was pending for the last more than three years due to the reasons best known to the concerned authorities.
Pankaj Sharma, who led the protest, warned to intensify the struggle for getting justice. He 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 getting overaged.
The protest demonstration was addressed by Ashwani Kumar, Tilak Raj, Tarsem Lal 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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