Shillong, Jan. 4: The candidates who had cleared the examinations for the Grade IV posts in the East Khasi Hills district took out a peace rally here on Friday, demanding absorption in different departments.
The candidates marched from Mawkhar to the state secretariat with the intention of meeting the chief secretary and seek clarification on their status. They,however, could not meet the chief secretary since he is away in Delhi, and instead ended their rally at the parking lot near the additional secretariat building.
The candidates want the government to extend for one more year the list of the 209 successful candidates who are yet to be absorbed in different departments and also release the list of vacant posts. “The peace rally is to pressurize the government to give us our rightful jobs since we had cleared the examination for the purpose,” said Bantei Kurbah, the president of the Association of Qualified Grade-IV Candidates 2011, East Khasi hills district.
Kurbah said they would again try and meet the chief secretary once he returns from his official tour. “However, if the government remains adamant, we will be compelled to take recourse to other means of agitations till our demand is met,” he added. The aggrieved candidates had staged a sit-in demonstration last month and threatened to go to the court to seek justice.
Only 122 of the 331 successful candidates from the district have been absorbed in government jobs so far. The candidates allege the state government had never mentioned the number of vacant posts in the advertisement in violation of the Supreme Court order. They later learnt through an RTI application that there were 200 vacant posts in different departments, but all appointments to these posts, Kurbah alleged, were done through backdoors in violation of the recruitment policy of the state. (By Our Reporter)
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