EARTH NEWS SERVICE Jammu, Dec 16 |15: Alleging large scale favoritism, nepotism and corruption in the process of selections conducted by various recruitment agencies, including SSB and PSC for govt. jobs, Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister has sought change in recruitment policy for state govt. jobs by abolition of the interview system and making selections on the basis of academic merit as repeatedly assured by the PM as well. He said that there were several instances where process of interview was abused and merit subverted by awarding disproportionate marks to the tail-enders. He said that it was established that helmsman who appoint their favorites as members of the recruitment agencies and then use the said members for getting favours for their blue eyed candidates in the viva voce thus vitiating the sanctity of the entire selection process. He said that though the BJP led govt. at the centre had announced abolition of interview for all non-gazetted posts but ironically the BJP partnered govt. in J&K issued a notification last week mandating oral test (interview) for all such services which was to be held after written test. He was addressing a protest dharna organized by the Panthers Party at exhibition ground Jammu seeking abolition of Viva voca in the process of selections to govt. jobs. The dharna was also attended and addressed by Yash Paul Kundal State President Young Panthers besides others. Seeking the abolition of interview process particularly for class III and Class IV posts, Harsh Dev Singh said that this would ensure transparency in the selection process besides restoring the faith of unemployed youth in the system. Others who were present during the occasion including Rajesh Padgotra, Manju Singh, Sham Gorkha, Gagan Pratap, Shankar Chib, Manoj Gupta, Neeraj Gupta, Arun Khajuria, Asha Rani, Ravinder Jamwal, Anil Rakhwal, Nirmal Kishore, Inder Pal, Rajeshwar Singh, Mohan Lal.
