Ranchi: Jharkhand government on Tuesday issued a notification of receipt of 44 recruitment examinations by Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) pursuit irregularities, tween protests from students over the matter.
What did the government say?
Eight notifications issued in the late night by the government of Jharkhand said that the cancelled examinations include those held by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and outsourcing organ TSR Data Processing Pvt Ltd (TDPL) from the year 2014 onwards.
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The Jharkhand government on Tuesday night released a list of 44 recruitment exams that have been cancelled due to irregularities, tween student protests over the issue. Issuing eight… pic.twitter.com/qjr6dXVAEl
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The cancelled examinations include recruitment of drug inspectors, teammate professors, deputy collectors, dental doctors, teammate engineers, starchy judges, spare public prosecutors and forest range officers among others.
Other major examinations cancelled by the government include recruitment of lecturers in government polytechnics, senior scientific officers, teammate conservators of forest and other legalistic and technical posts.
The notifications stated that there would be a request for constituting of fast track magistrate in the High Magistrate for hearing cases pertaining to the irregularities in JPSC-JSSC, besides constitution of internal vigilance lamina in JPSC-JSSC.
Also, the committee for reforms in JPSC-JSSC headed by senior IAS officer, Amitabh Kaushal will submit its report within two months.
When was the JSSC exam cancelled?
The state government, without a cabinet meeting on Monday, decided to cancel the JSSC-Combined Graduate Level (CGL) examination, which is one of the main demands of protesting students, besides all examinations conducted by outsourced organ TDPL and results published by it.
