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SANT KUMAR SHARMA
JAMMU, Oct 19: Over the next few days, the J&K Services Selection Board will organize height measurement test for candidates provisionally shortlisted for the post of forester in forest department.
An advertisement to this effect was issued by the Administrative Officer of the J&K Services Selection Board some days ago. The advertisement gave the schedule for the test and the candidates belonging to different categories will undergo the test on October 29 and 30, as per the schedule.
The test is being conducted for the posts of forester (forest department) for Divisional Cadre posts of the Jammu division which were advertised almost three years ago. Applications had been invited from candidates for these posts vide Advertisement Notice no 03 of 2006 dated 28-12-2006, item no 050.
The way things have moved so far, it appears that it may take several months more before these candidates are selected and given appointment letters.
Some candidates appearing for this test on October 29 alleged that even now money and political influence may play a major part in final selections. One of them remarked rather sarcastically: ``The time taken by the SSB to complete the recruitment process is really sickening. A snail could perhaps have circumbulated the globe since the day the advertisement for these posts was issued.’’
From time to time, one keeps coming across such incidents of woefully slow recruitment process being followed in case of different government jobs.
Candidates who had applied for some government jobs in 2005 are still awaiting call letters for interviews or written examinations. Whenever they make inquiries with the recruitment agencies of the state government, they are given empty assurances and nothing concrete is done.
Thousands of posts are lying vacant in the health and medical education departments and the process for filling up these critical posts is yet to begin in right earnest.
Contrast this with the manner in which selections were made by the Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) for posts of lecturers in English in the higher education department. The pace of selections was truly breathtaking and completed in a span of hours on the final day.
A school lecturer, Mr Suresh Khajuria, recounted the incident saying the shortlisted candidates were asked to appear for the final interviews before the panel of experts on one particular day. Incidentally, some subject experts had been invited from outside the state and they worked, virtually without a break, for several hours interviewing one candidate after another.
By late evening, they completed the whole process of interviews and also prepared a final merit list. Late at night, the PSC reportedly finalized the selection list of 21 candidates and uploaded it on its website.
The next morning, the final selection list was thus out in public domain and some of these newly-appointed lecturers will start teaching in the near future.
The completion of all formalities on the day of the interview itself means it gave no chance to meddling politicians to interfere in the selection process, Mr Khajuria pointed out.
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