Role of Youth activists, media deserve to be appreciated
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Expressing serious concern over SI recruitment scam, playing with the future of nearly one lakh youth who appeared in selection test, Congress has said that the big hands behind the alleged multi crore scandal should be identified. Congratulating the youth for identifying and highlighting the bungling in the result forcing government to order enquiry, leading to substantiating the allegations, JKPCC also sought the monitoring of the CBI investigation by the high court as public perception is that some highly influential hands are suspected to be involved. The SI recruitment scam exposed the claims of the government about foolproof fairness, it has shaken the confidence of the youth in various recent selections under present regime. The present scam surfaced due to the efforts of the youth who could pinpoint large scale bunglings in the performance of few selected candidates and also lauded the media and social media, for a campaign, forcing the government to order an enquiry. JKPCC Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said that the enquiry committee has rightly recommended the CBI investigation into the major scam, however the probe needs to be monitored by the high court for a completely fair and independent investigation.
He said that the selections of 3400 class IVth posts is still pending because of certain irregularities and illegalities in the list which, had to be recalled by the board while rest of selected are serving for eight months. Similarly there are allegations of candidates in the selections in fire services too. In view of this situation, it is desired that all such allegations should be looked into and enquired to ascertain the facts.