JKSSB Class IVth posts: Graduate Candidates Ask Some Genuine Questions
The merit list of class IVth posts earlier advertised by the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board is surrounded by controversies regarding the eligiblity criteria set by the recruiting board which only allowed candidates with matric or 10+2 as their qualification to apply for the said posts.
The board conducted written test for the said posts on 27th, 28th Feb. and 1st of March 2020.
Candidates with graduation or above as their qualification too applied for those positions and for obvious reasons of soaring unemployment in the Union Territory.
Once the merit list was issued by the board, apparently those with higher qualification have scored well in the written exams and saw themselves up the ladder in the merit list.
The confusion regarding eligibility was yet to be cleared by the board and then in an interview with a news portal, The Straight Line, Chairman of the JKSSB made it clear that those having graduation as their qualification will be barred from these posts.
The statement by chairman again created lots of confusion among those candidates who are graduates but have submitted only the documents up to 10+2.
“The question arises, how is the board going to scrutinize or cross check as to who among the applied ones have done graduation or post graduation.” Said one candidate wishing anonymity while talking to The Kashmir Radar.
“Why should the recruiting board be concerned about our higher qualification, I am a graduate but I am willing to work on a class fourth position.” Said another candidate.
Another candidate wants JKSSB to answer a myriad of question among which we documented only a few.
- Is it a crime to pursue higher education, or is that goverment doesn’t want us apply for the positions we wish to.?
2. If a candidate is willing to do a low salaried or low profile job, how can the board bar us from doing so.?
3. what about those graduates who are working as labourers on meagre wages.?
4. Most of the candidates with higher qualification have crossed their upper age limit. What answer shall the board return to them?
5. How should those lone bread earners of their families survive who have pursued higher qualifications?
6. The unemployed youth working in private institutions with higher qualifications too deserve an answer to these questions.
Since 2008 all class IVth recruitments were under SRO-99 wherein it was clearly mentioned that higher qualifications shall no get additional points.
Moreover, the notification for the class IVth posts in questions never mentioned that those with higher qualifications shall be barred from applying for the said posts.
“Now when graduate candidates contacted GAD officialls telephonically they were given to understand that an amendment has recently been done which bars graduates and makes them ineligible for class IVth posts.” Said one aggrieved candidate.
How will this amendment be applied on 2020 notifications.? Asked several unemployed candidates.
The aggrieved candidates now request the LG administration to kindly intervene in this matter.
