Jammu varsity yet to take call on posts of assistant registrar

Arteev Sharma

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Tribune News Service

Jammu, July 2

The Jammu University administration is yet to declare the results of a written test that was conducted for five posts of assistant registrar a year ago.

The delay has created uncertainty and resentment among aspirants who had appeared in the examination on July 9 last year.

The selection process for these posts had remainedin controversies since these posts were advertised.

Besides these five posts, other administrative posts were advertised for the first time on August 29, 2011, but no initiative was taken to fill these. The five posts included three posts for the main campus (one each in open, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes categories), one post for the Bhaderwah campus and one post for the Kathua campus.

These posts were re-advertised on September 1, 2015, but again nothing was done. After facing several administrative hiccups, the written test for these posts was conducted on July 9, 2017. However, the university is yet to declare the results.

“Vice Chancellor Prof RD Sharma decided to keep himself away from the selection process because his daughter had also appeared in the test. He did not want to be partof any controversy as some groups had raised appre-hensions of favouritism,” a senior official said.

He said initially, controversies delayed the declaration of results. The university had proposed to conduct the interviews, inter-alia, for the posts of assistant registrar in February this year but it got delayed after two major state universities — University of Jammu and University of Kashmir — were restrained from taking any policy decision or initiating any selection process for various posts without seeking the approval from Raj Bhawan in January this year.

The move was taken in view of the expiry of the three-year tenure of the incumbent JU VC on March 18. The KU VC’s term, too, had expired last year.

When contacted, Prof Meenakshi Kilam, Registrar, Jammu University, said the results would be declared immediately after the appointment of the new VC, whose name was likely to be announced this month.