JKPSC exams off amid confusion over its continuity

Srinagar, November 19

The Jammu & Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has postponed all its examinations and interviews scheduled this year as confusion continues to prevail over employment process in the newly created UT. 

Officials said examination calendar was lined up to January next year for various gazetted posts. “In the backdrop of debate in print and electronic media over the continuity of the commission, propriety demands that interviews and exams are postponed,” said JKPSC Chairman Lateef u Zaman Deva. 

A large number of candidates for the post of consultant in the health department had to return home disappointed on Monday after they were informed by the commission officials that exams had been postponed. The reports about possible dissolution of the JKPSC have created panic among aspirants for other posts, who fear they may have to apply afresh.

As per the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019, the JKPSC will continue to be recruiting agency for various posts in J&K UT while recruitments in Ladakh would be done by the Union Public Service Commission. However, the Centre, on November 14, ordered a fresh exercise to reconstitute various commissions/authorities. The order, however, said the JKPSC would continue to function as per the J&K Reorganisation Act. — TNS