JKPSC postpones exams amid confusion over its continuity

Blurb: Service commission has job calendar lined upto January next year

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, November 19

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

Officials said examination calendar was lined upto 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 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.

“The government must clear whether the commission will continue or not,” said a candidate, scheduled to appear in an examination for the post of assistant engineer (electrical).

According to the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019, the JKPSC will continue to be recruiting agency for various posts in Jammu and Kashmir UT while recruitments in Ladakh would be conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.

However, the Centre on November 14 asked the administrative secretaries to initiate a fresh exercise immediately to reconstitute various commissions or authorities. Even as other commissions were to be reconstituted, the order explicitly said the JKPSC and its body would continue as per the J&K Reorganisation Act.