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JAMMU: A number of aspirants of JKSSB and others, preparing for various posts, held a joint protest at Press Club Jammu on Monday, while similar protests were held at other district headquarters as well.
Speaking on the occasion, Vinkal Sharma said that the exams conducted by JKSSB were cancelled by the administration due to several irregularities like hiring a blacklisted company, having a long list of failures. The same was acknowledged by High court too, which directed Government to constitute a committee under retired High court Judge to investigate the matter but Government used its power unethically and obtained stay over that enquiry, he added. “Now re-exams conducted by a previously blacklisted company have also entered into controversy as answer-key got leaked prior to notified date,” he added. The protesting aspirants alleged that JKSSB is pretending that nothing serious has happened whereas a link was leaked and circulated on social media on December 28, 2022 claiming that it was answer-key link. The aspirants urged the Government to implement Single bench judgment for punishing corrupt JKSSB officials, investigation of leakage of answer key, framing stern law to stop paper leakage with provisions of harsh punishments for private as well as Government employees, participation of private players in public recruitments etc for ensuring transparency in recruitment process.
Prominent among those who were present in the protest at Jammu included Sushil, Rohit, Ronak, Sakshar, Moin, Nasir and Ramneek while Rajat, Ajay, Aditya, Manik and others staged a protest at Samba. Similarly, Aquib, Najeem, Shaqib, Shariq, Tahir and others participated in protest at Rajouri; Sahil, Keshav, Abhishek, Rohit, Vishal and others in Kathua, Rakesh, Anil, Nadeem, Ricky, Arun, Pankaj and others in Udhampur while Aasif, Aarif, Nadeem, Sahil, Nisar, Omar and others staged protest at Anantnag, Budgam and Baramulla.