STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Jail Warden Aspirants has continued to stage protest demonstration in support of their demands of releasing final selection list, the interviews for which were held in the year of 2010.
They, however, sought the attention of the Governor N.N Vohra for early conceding of their long pending demand.
Raising slogans against the concerned authorities, protesters demanded immediate release of final selection list.
They said that they had been striving for the release of final list for the last four years but unfortunately, the concerned authorities were paying deaf ear towards their genuine demand.
They further said that most of the aspirants had already crossed the upper age limit and rests were at the brink of it.
They said despite the fact that no recruitment has taken place in the Prison Department since 1995 and the department is facing acute shortage of manpower with 2000 vacancies, the successive State Government was adopting delaying tactics in releasing the final selection list, candidates claimed.
“About 41,182 unemployed youth had applied for the post of Jail Wardens in 2005 and 1,247 candidates were shortlisted for the interview, which was held in September 2010”, they said, adding, “Even after more than three years since the conduct of interviews, the selection list is still awaited, and most of them are getting over-aged.
