RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec.16: Soon after the Jharkhand High Court declared the Jharkhand government’s 2021 recruitment policy unconstitutional and allowed the petition of Ramesh Hansda, the recruitment process started by Jharkhand State Selection Commission (JSSC) on the basis of the said policy has come to a grinding halt as expected.
The JSSC through its official website today evening notified deletion of its examination calendar citing ‘aprirharya (unavoidable)’ circumstances as reason and informed that it will notify corrected examination calendar later.
The JSSC had floated more than 20 advertisements for the recruitment of junior engineers, assistant section officers, junior assistant (secretariat), block supply officers, and planning assistant and assistant scientists besides others on the basis of the said policy and started the process of recruitment and with this notification the recruitment process has stopped.
Notably, the Jharkhand High Court today rejected the recruitment rule of the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) under which only students who have passed the 10th and 12th examinations from the state’s institute are eligible for participating in the recruitment process.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Hemant Soren has taken serious note of the development and he said at a public meeting in Deoghar that he was committed to fight a legal as well as political battle to save the policy.
“No one can take away the rights and entitlements of the youth of Jharkhand,” he said, expressing his commitment for the recruitment policy.
A person present in the public meeting demanded from Hemant Soren that the local policy of 1932 should be linked with the employment policy. On this, the Chief Minister said: “Whether the government has to go to the High Court or the Supreme Court, the state government will go and win.”
The situation was expected as Ramesh Hansda filed a petition challenging the recruitment policy and the high court started giving negative observations on the policy.
On January 27, the Jharkhand High Court had slammed the state government for not filing an affidavit regarding the recruitment rules of the JSSC. The bench of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad asked the state government whether the court should put a stay on all recruitment processes of the JSSC.
The court was further displeased that despite rules being challenged, the government instead of submitting affidavits, published further recruitment advertisements under the new recruitment rules.
The court had commented that looking at the rules, the new recruitment policy appeared to be unconstitutional. The court found it discriminating since it has been made compulsory for the aspirants of the general category that they must have passed their matriculation and plus two from Jharkhand.
But the same has been relaxed for aspirants of the reserved category.
The petitioners Ramesh Hansda and Kushal Kumar said that such amendments and insertions were violative to the provisions of the Constitution of India.
But amid the row, the JSSC floated advertisements for the recruitment of junior engineers, assistant section officers, junior assistant (secretariat), block supply officers, and planning assistant and assistant scientists.
