JKSSB Withdrawal of Candidature for the post of Class-IV posts - Kashmir Student
JKSSB Withdrawal of candidature for the post of Class-IV posts advertised vide Notification No. 01 of 2020 dated 26.06.2020 under Item No. 1 to 23 for UT/Divisional/District Cadres in UT of J&K-reg.
JKSSB Withdrawal of candidature for the post of Class-IV posts advertised vide Notification No. 01 of 2020 dated 26.06.2020 under Item No. 1 to 23 for UT/Divisional/District Cadres in UT of J&K-reg.
Whereas, the Services Selection Board advertised 8575 posts of Class-IV vide Notification No. 01 of 2020 for different cadres in various Departments for District/Divisional/Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in pursuance of the indent forwarded by the General Administration Department vide No. GAD/Mtg/RB-IV/50/2020 dated 22.06.2020; and
Whereas, selection to these posts was to be made under the provisions of SO 184 of 2020 dated 04.06.2020 which envisages selection to be made on the basis of written examination and accordingly OMR based written test was conducted on 27th, 28th of February, 2021 and 1st of March, 2021, the result of the said examination was declared in the month of June 2021; and
Whereas, as per rule 6 of the SO 184 a shortlist of candidates in the ratio of 1:4 has to be made and accordingly 9652 unique candidates were called for document verification in the month of August & September 2021; and
Whereas, as per the indent/recruitment rules, the qualification prescribed for the post is minimum “Matric and maximum 10+2”, and accordingly the shortlisted candidates were asked to submit an undertaking duly attested by the Judicial Magistrate 1st Class vide Notice No. SSB/Secy/Sel/ClassIV/2021/4832-39 dated 07.07.2021 to the effect that they do not possess higher qualification than the maximum prescribed for the post; and
Whereas, some of the candidates also approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) and filed OA/517/2020 titled N.K Tripathi and others V/s UT of J&K and others for seeking quashment of condition 6 (iii) of advertisement Notification No. 01 of 2020; and
Whereas, Hon’ble CAT, Jammu was pleased to dismiss the aforesaid OA vide judgment dated 28.07.2021, the operative part whereof is reproduced as under:
“…We do not find any reason to quash condition 6(iii) of the advertisement Notice No. 01 of 2020 dated 22.06.2020 issued by the JKSSB. Accordingly the OA is dismissed”; and
Whereas, the JKSSB received various representations that a considerable number of shortlisted candidates despite being graduates and above are furnishing wrong affidavits with the intention of getting selected for the Class-IV post; and
Whereas, the JKSSB vide Notice No. SSB/Secy/Class-IV/2021/6013-21
dated 08.09.2021 provided the opportunity to all such higher qualified candidates who have applied for Class-IV post to withdraw their candidature voluntarily against the aforesaid post by or before 22.09.2021 failing which the JKSSB shall take necessary action as deemed appropriate under rules; and
Whereas, the Board received 153 applications from the candidates who have represented before the Board for their withdrawal of candidature for ClassIV posts: and
Whereas, the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board issued a final selection list of 5175 candidates vide this office Notification No. SSB/Secy/Sel/Class-IV/2021/7103-11 dated 18.10.2021 was forwarded to General Administration Department; and
Whereas, in order to call the additional candidates for document verification/counselling to fill up the leftover vacancies the JKSSB vide communication No. SSB/Class-IV/Adm/58/2021/7418-21 dated 29.10.2021 requested the General Administration Department to provide advice to the JKSSB for calling of additional candidates for document verification; and
Whereas, The General Administration Department vide communication vide communication No. GAD-MTGORBIV/57/2021-09-GAD dated 05.02.2022 conveyed its advice on calling of additional candidates for counselling/document verification which is as under:
“It has been decided in the meetings that in terms of rule 6 (1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Appointment to Class-IV (Special Recruitment Rules, 2020, the Board is required to shortlist the candidates in the ratio of 1:4 of the total advertised vacancies on the basis of aggregate marks. In terms of the aforesaid rules, as against one vacancy in each cadre, four candidates are required to be shortlisted and after evaluating the merit cum preference the candidate has to be considered for that particular cadre only.
As such, I am directed to advise you to go ahead with the selection process qua the unfilled vacancies and short list the candidates in terms of the prescribed ratio under the rules. Further, the unique candidature procedure adopted by the Board needs to be dispensed with and the remaining vacancies may be filled according to the afore-said rule position; and
Whereas, on the basis of advice received from the General Administration Department, the JKSSB called additional 14679 candidates for counselling/document verification in 2nd phase vide this office Notification No. SSB/Sel/Secy//2022/1230-38 dated 11.02.2022 and the document verification of these candidates was conducted from 17.02.20232 to 24.03.2022 both at Jammu and Srinagar; and
Whereas, in order to fill the vacancies earmarked for physically disabled persons, the JKSSB scheduled the document verification of such 987 candidates on 10th and 11th of March, 2022 vide this office Notification No. SSB/COE/2022/2075-82 dated 03.03.2022; and
Whereas, during the document verification and after the completion of document verification the JKSSB received numerous representations with the request that large number of candidates who are called for document verification in the 2nd phase possess the qualification higher than the prescribed for the posts and are submitting false affidavits before the Board.
Now, therefore, in view of the above through the medium of this Notice all such candidates who are graduates before cut-off date and have applied for Class-IV posts and submitted false affidavits before the Board are hereby called upon to withdraw their candidature for the Class-IV posts, within 07 days from the date of issuance of this Notice.
Thereafter, any candidate who is found to have submitted false affidavit and are graduate before the cut-off date i.e 28.08.2020 shall be liable for cancellation of his/her candidature for Class-IV post and debarred from appearing in the future examination against the graduate level posts notified by the JKSSB in future, besides lodging to initiation of criminal proceedings as warranted under law against them.
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