SHILLONG, DEC 20: The candidates who had cleared the examinations for the Grade IV posts in the East Khasi Hills district began their two-day sit-in demonstration here on Thursday with a warning to the state government to either absorb them or face legal action.
The protest comes in the wake of the state government’s failure to meet the deadline set by the candidates to absorb all the 209 candidates who had cleared the District Selection Committee (DSC) examinations and also release the number of vacancy posts. “If government is adamant, we will be compelled to take the matter to court,” said the vice president of the Association of Qualified Grade-IV Candidates 2011, East Khasi Hills district (AQGC) Badon Pyrtuh.
A total of 331 candidates had qualified the DSC tests on October 28, 2011. However, only 122 of them have been absorbed in the government.
Pyrtuh said government in its advertisement had never mentioned the number of vacancy posts in the district in violation of a Supreme Court order, forcing the association to file an RTI application. “A total of 200 posts were found lying vacant in the different departments in the RTI findings. However, the appointments to these posts were done through backdoors which again is in violation of the recruitment policy of the state,” he said
The government citing a Supreme Court ruling, he said, later claimed the list of empanelled Grade IV candidates had lapsed, but the truth was the apex court had instead directed the state to ensure that the names of candidates released should be in accordance with the number of vacant posts. “We want the government to immediately approve the list of qualified candidates so that no one, especially those who could risk crossing the age limit in the delay, are not deprived of their rights,” he said. (By Our Reporter)
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