“Experiences of decades have shown that it takes J&K SSRB years together to announce dates for written tests and interviews after advertising the posts.”
The surge in unemployment necessitates immediate review of the recruitment procedure for fast tracking the Government recruitments under the new popular Government in Jammu & Kashmir. After all recruitments in Government are about youth welfare and youth empowerment and no popular Government likes to delay the recruitment or compromise the transparency in recruitment in any part of the world. Notably Chief Secretary Attal Dulloo in the latest review on Government recruitment has stressed for resolving the issues stalling the recruitments undertaken by Jammu & Kashmir Services Selection Recruitment Board (J&K SSRB). Experiences of decades have shown that delay at various stages of recruitments and transparency in the written tests and interviews are the most pressing concerns of the job aspirants and their parents in Jammu & Kashmir like people in many states and union territories of the country. As the tragedy of the recruitments under popular Governments in Jammu & Kashmir has been that finally written tests are cancelled and even investigations are ordered to probe the irregularities, Care has to be taken that J&K SSRB does not face similar charges of irregularities in the conduct of written tests and interviews from now onwards. While transparency in recruitments remains the press concern of the people, the unprecedented delays caused in issuing advertisements and announcing dates for written tests and interviews are to be avoided at all costs. Experiences of decades have shown that it takes J&K SSRB years together to announce dates for written tests and interviews after advertising the posts. The review of the launch of the recruitment process for about 3,300 posts at a high-level meeting by Chief Secretary Attal Dulloo is the beginning of the revival of a major recruitment process after the return of the popular rule in Jammu & Kashmir just a month ago.
“While J&K SSRB would remain under public scanner till the completion of this new recruitment exercises to be launched for about 3300 posts, the roadmap and the timeline of the new Government for referring the present vacant positions to J&K SSRB and Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission (J&K SSRB) would show its interest in reducing the huge surge in employment witnessed in Jammu & Kashmir in previous years.”
While it has been matter of great satisfaction for the J&K SSRB to complete selection 22,624 candidates since 2019 besides taking nearer to completion the selection of candidates for more 874 positions in the Government, the fresh recruitment process for about 3300 new posts the first under the Omar Abdullah led National Conference Government would be an acid test for the J&K SSRB as all eyes would be on the transparency and the timing of the completion of this fresh recruitment exercise. While J&K SSRB would remain under public scanner till the completion of this new recruitment exercises to be launched for about 3300 posts, the roadmap and the timeline of the new Government for referring the present vacant positions to J&K SSRB and Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission (J&K SSRB) would show its interest in reducing the huge surge in employment witnessed in Jammu & Kashmir in previous years.
