Srinagar: The five year age relaxation withdrawn to Jammu & Kashmir civil servants is now likely to be restored and an order from the central government’s ministry of personnel is likely to be issued soon.
Authoritative sources disclosed to Kashmir Horizon that following rethinking over the decision of withdrawing five years age relaxation to Jammu & Kashmir for civil services examinations the central government may very soon restore the age relaxation very soon.
As reported already several mainstream leaders have in their statements sought the restoration of the age relaxation withdrawn in haste for the Jammu & Kashmir aspirants of the central civil services examination. The age relaxation was extended to the Jammu & Kashmir aspirants of the central services examinations by the erstwhile Congress led UPA government several years ago and increasing no of civil service qualifiers from Jammu & Kashmir has increased the no of participants not only in the central civil services examination but also in other examinations held annually for selections to several All India Services and national level banks across the country.
Not only from Kashmir but from Jammu & Ladhak regions also the no of participants and qualifiers in the central civil services examination is on the rise for last several years. Though many serving local IAS and IPS officers are engaged actively in the coaching of civil service aspirants in Jammu & Kashmir but the increasing interests of Jammu & Kashmir youth may go down after the scrapping of Jammu & Kashmir cadre of the central services recently by the central government’s ministry of personnel.