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| SI selection caught in controversy | | 781 extra seating arrangements for written test create doubt among aspirants | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 15: The seating arrangement for 781 more candidates for the upcoming written exam for the posts of Sub-Inspector in J&K Police (Executive) has created doubts among thousands of aspirants.
A total of 16,130 candidates had qualified the Physical Standard Test (PST) whereas the seating arrangements for 16911 candidates have been made by the Police Recruitment Board (PRB) for the written examination scheduled to be held on June 24.
The candidates who qualified the PST told Early Times that a total of 8069 and 8061 candidates qualified the test from Jammu and Kashmir province, respectively.
A total of 16130 candidates were supposed to appear in the written test, but the PRB has made arrangements for 16911 candidates-8623 in Jammu province and 8288 in Kashmir province.
"Making seating arrangements for 781 more candidates indicates something is fishy in the entire selection process. It might be that some blue-eyed candidates have been given backdoor entry to appear in the written examination", an aspirant said.
He asked: "Who will check whether only those qualified the PST will appear in the written exams or 781 more candidates who hadn't even qualified PST will also appear?"
The aspirants said the invigilating staff in the written examination would also be from the police and there are bleak possibilities that any police officer would raise questions over any wrongdoing by his own department.
A professor working at Parade College, one of the centres for the PRB, said the police have not sought any invigilating staff from the college. "Most of the invigilating staff in the police recruitment exam would be from the department and it all depends on their dictates", the professor said.
"The halls in our college have capacity in hundreds, and whenever we give space to UPSC or SSC for conducting examinations, we remove desks from the classroom as per the allotment of students. No extra desk is placed in the examination hall", the professor said, adding that making extra arrangements by police department will definitely create doubts about the selection process.
But refuting the allegations, ADG Police, AK Choudhary, said that these were only the capacity of the halls in the educational institutions. "The order under circulation on the social networking sites, according to which confusion has been created, was actually for internal use of the department. But somehow it made its way to social networking sites", Choudhary said and reiterated that the entire selection process was totally transparent.
At GDC Parade 24 rooms of New block have been converted into examination halls each with sitting capacity of 24 candidates. A Professor posted at Parade college said the average capacity of these rooms varies from 50-80 students per room. The desks are not fixed in these rooms and during college exams 24-30 students are allowed to sit as per university norms but more students can be adjusted, he said, adding that during JUET exams in the same rooms 40-60 students were allowed to sit. The increasing or decreasing the sitting capacity depends on the choice of organizers, he added. |
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