NPP President Slams BJP Government’s Claims of Transparent Government Job Recruitments
16-06-2023: Describing the claims of the BJP Government of having brought transparency in recruitments for Government jobs as cruel joke with the unemployed educated youth, the NPP president and former minister Harsh Dev Singh said that the recent statement of Central ministers made during the ‘Rozgar Melas’ in this regard has only evoked cynicism amongst the masses.
Addressing a press conference here Singh said PM Modi seems to be ill-informed, especially with regard to the highly controversial selections made in J&K during the last few years which had earned the helmsmen the most dubious distinction. He said that the recent past has been witness to the culture of fake, backdoor, and other paid appointments growing by leaps and bounds. And whereas the post-reorganization era witnessed large-scale retrenchments, of even the regularly engaged Government employees, the new UT saw the resultant vacancies being put on sale by the various recruitment bodies through blacklisted agencies, Singh said.
Pointing towards the much-publicized scam in the selection of PSIs, FAAs, and JEs in the UT, Singh said that it was the public outrage and fear of adverse consequences that had forced the Govt to rescind the said list wherein crores had been swindled by a corrupt mafia. He regretted that even the youth disengaged the APTECH Co. hired for making recruitments in the UT. The irregular selections of Firemen and drivers made in the Fire Services Deptt through dubious means were also highlighted umpteen times in the media but the helmsmen have chosen to push the matter under the carpet for reasons best known, Harsh Dev said.
In another job scam, the J&K Bank made appointments of around 3000 Banking Associates and Clerks through the backdoor which too has failed to invite due attention of authorities concerned despite the issue having been highlighted by the erstwhile State Governor SP Malik.
Alleging the commission of the biggest recruitment scandal in BJP-PDP rule, Singh said that more than 4000 SPOs were engaged in 2017-18 through the backdoor without following any procedure and the officers who made such appointments were rewarded with prize postings.
