The encouraging results in Union Public Service Commission’s (UPSC’s) civil services examination from Jammu & Kashmir show a growing tendency for lucrative careers among the youth in Jammu & Kashmir. Youth cracking civil services on self study indicate that had there been counseling and coaching facilities in Colleges and Universities the results would have been far better. Since the hopelessness generated by the job insecurity in contractual and adhoc appointments in Jammu & Kashmir during the reign of popular regimes in yesteryears has drifted the attention of the people from adhocism to open selection procedures, there is apparently an urgent need for counseling and coaching facilities in Colleges and Universities of Jammu & Kashmir. Separate counseling and coaching department in colleges and universities in view of the non stop qualifying trends of J&K youth in All India Services Examination would have increased the level of participation and consequently the no of qualifiers in All India Service Examinations would have been much higher from Jammu & Kashmir. A week ago the politicians of all hues did not felicitate this year’s civil service qualifiers the way they were felicitating such civil service qualifiers in yesteryears during reigns of popular governments in erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir state simply for the reasons that qualifiers of All India Service Examination have not to beg before them like contractual and adhoc appointees for regularisation of their services. Though the Jammu & Kashmir had in the year 2016 started coaching classes under the names “ CM’s Super Coaching Classes” for the Pre-Medical and Pre- Engineering entrance tests but the quality of coaching in the government coaching centres was not as satisfying as it was in the famed coaching centres both in Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division. So any government initiative for introducing counseling and coaching facilities in colleges and universities has to be qualitatively better than the private coaching centres.
In the fastly changing recruitment scenario in Jammu & Kashmir establishing counseling and coaching departments in both Colleges and Universities for all the All India Service Examinations and as well as NEET held for admission to medical and engineering courses has to be a priority in view of the growing tendency of youth for open selection processes across Jammu & Kashmir.
Though there is a pre-recruitment coaching department at J&K Institute of Management, Public Administration & Rural Development (J&K IMPARD) but it has not been expanded the way it should have been expanded to extend counseling and coaching facilities to youth of both Kashmir valley and as well as Jammu division for their participation in both All India Service Examinations and as well as NEET held for selection of students to medical and engineering courses across the country. In fact for better results better facilities of counseling and coaching are both inevitable and as well as imperative. In the fastly changing recruitment scenario in Jammu & Kashmir establishing counseling and coaching departments in both Colleges and Universities for all the All India Service Examinations and as well as NEET held for admission to medical and engineering courses has to be a priority in view of the growing tendency of youth for open selection processes across Jammu & Kashmir.
