STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Coming down heavily on the Public Service Commission (PSC) for overtly indulging in large scale malpractices, nepotism and regional bias in selections to government services besides persistent blunders in conducting examinations for various gazetted posts, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP and former Education Minister, accused the PSC of perpetuating discrimination against the educated youth of Jammu while divesting them of their equitable share in selections. Alleging large scale bias and prejudice against Jammu youth in selections during the last two and a half years, Harsh said that highly biased nature of selections had shaken the faith of the educated youth of the region in the present dispensation as well as in the PSC. He said that the research conducted by the Panthers party in the respective select lists revealed peanuts share of Jammu region in the said recruitments as compared to Kashmir which was in the obnoxious average ratio of around 10:90.
He cautioned the State Public Service Commission to desist from acting as a stooge in the hands of the Kashmir centric BJP-PDP dispensation as the regional bias in selections and the harassment of the underemployed had caused a severe embitterment among the youth of Jammu which could explode anytime and take an ugly turn. He said that it happened for the first time that a constitutional body like PSC had drawn wide public criticism for its arbitrary and discriminatory functioning which could be exclusively gauged by the recent selections of Assistant Professors and Lecturers in various disciplines.
Severely admonishing the State PSC for its persistent follies of blunders committed in conducting examination for various gazetted posts and recent KAS preliminary exams in particular, he said that it had come to fore that 24 questions/ answers were wrongly marked in its official key pertaining to Political Science, Zoology and General Studies.
While deploring the incident, he said that it was for the first time in the history that JKPSC would hold the evaluation afresh for the entire preliminary J&K Competitive Service Examination for the cycle year which had subsequently led to the withdrawal of Main exam notification.
Doubting the credibility of the team of experts constituted by the Commission to find the correct answers to the identified disputed questions, he divulged that several aspirants/ deputations from Jammu region had earlier reported to him that the PSC, on several occasions empanelled the experts of its choice to facilitate the selections on extraneous and discriminatory grounds. Lambasting the PSC for losing its sheen and gleam besides public faith, he rued that suspicions were rife among the Jammu based KAS aspirants that the official key was deliberately made by the PSC, so as to exclude them from the competition and divest them of their due share in the State civil services.
Harsh announced that the Panthers party shall hold a massive protest demonstration outside the office of Public Service Commission in Jammu on Friday, 16th June against its vices and wrongdoings. He urged the people, social organizations, aggrieved aspirants of KAS including Asst. professors and Lecturers, PhD holders, highly qualified youth and college students to assemble in large number at 10:00 AM to join the protest at the said venue.
He said that NPP shall continue to fight the injustice meted out to the Dogras and not relent unless Jammu region got its equitable share in all spheres.
