The Jammu Kashmir administration has cancelled yet another exam in the region. Several job recruitment exams have been cancelled in the last three years.
On Wednesday, the Jammu Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) cancelled the Paper-II (Qualifying) of the J-K Prosecuting Officer (Preliminary) Examination held in January.
The fresh date for holding a fresh examination has been announced as 16th March 2023.
According to an order the JKPSC said that the examination held earlier was cancelled after the complaints were received that the examination of the Qualifying Paper II of the preliminary examination was of a standard higher than the level prescribed in the notification.
The JKPSC conducted the Preliminary Examination for filling up the posts of Prosecuting Officers in the Home Department on 29.01.2022 in two shifts.
The Examination comprised two MCQ-based papers conducted in two sessions on the said day.
The Provisional Answer Keys for Paper- I & Paper II (Qualifying) were notified seeking objections from the candidates within the stipulated period.
JKPSC said that along with the objections, various representations were received from the candidates through the J&K High Court Bar Association, Jammu and others, registering their grievance that the Examination of the Qualifying Paper II of the said Preliminary Examination was of a standard higher than the level prescribed in the notification and majority of them could not qualify the same.
This time it may be the question papers set in the higher benchmark but in other cases, the instances of paper leaks, unfair means, favouritism in interviews and cheating came to light in the entrance examinations held by the service selection bodies in Jammu Kashmir.
Just a couple of months back, the J&K Public Service Commission announced the Combined Services Entrance examination on one evening and suddenly changed the list of candidates successful in a preliminary examination where in it ousted scores of aspirants already declared qualifying and entering the almost equal number of new candidates as successful.
It was shocking for those candidates who were declared successful in the earlier announced list.
Many of the candidates later knocked on the doors of the Central Administrative Tribunal with the result the examination date for CCS Mains got further delayed.
The cancellation of the Service Selection Board selection list of Police Sub-Inspectors, Accounts Assistants had earlier evoked widespread condemnation.