Chandigarh: The Congress — which has been attacking the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) authorities in Punjab over an alleged rip-off within the recruitment of naib tehsildars (income officers) — has now highlighted one other “rip-off”. This time, it’s concerning the conduct of an examination for the promotion of kanungos (income clerks) to naib tehsildars.
The written examination, performed by the state income division, has come below a cloud after senior Congress chief Sukhpal Singh Khaira Sunday alleged “gross manipulation and corruption” within the examination course of and demanded a vigilance inquiry into the matter.
ThePrint reached Punjab income minister Brahm Shankar Sharma and monetary commissioner (income) Ok.A.P. Sinha by phone calls and messages, however has not acquired responses. This report might be up to date if and when a response is acquired.
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The examination and Congress’s allegations
Greater than 400 kanungos sat the examination for promotion to naib tehsildar in October final yr. There are eight papers in whole, all of which kanungos should go as a way to be promoted. The outcomes had been declared in March, with candidates who’d failed being allowed to use for revaluation throughout the following month. The revaluation outcomes had been declared in June, with 67 out of 120 candidates passing.
In a sequence of tweets, sharing the outcomes of the revaluation course of, Khaira, the MLA for Bholath, has alleged that candidates who utilized for revaluation and wished to be promoted had paid Rs 1 lakh per paper to the income division.
Particularly, the Congress chief — who was with AAP from 2015 to 2018 and served as chief of the opposition in 2017-18 — has asked chief minister Bhagwant Mann to probe how out of 64 candidates who had failed the Urdu paper, 43 had been declared to have handed the examination after the revaluation.
Chatting with ThePrint, Khaira mentioned, “Initially, the truth that out of 120 kanungos who had failed the written examination, 67 managed to go it after revaluation. This poses critical questions concerning the method during which the unique examination was performed and its end result. Usually, the go share of any examination adjustments by just one or two per cent following revaluation. However on this case, greater than 50 per cent of the candidates had been revaluated in a way that helped them go the examination that they’d failed.”
“Revaluation can solely make slightly distinction or result in a rise in just a few marks, however on this case it modified your complete end result. In some instances, the marks of the candidates really doubled. Essentially the most fascinating half was that the utmost variety of kanungos who had failed within the Urdu topic handed after the revaluation. Does that imply that the unique checking of the Urdu topic reply sheets was so dangerous that 43 of the 64 kanungos who utilized for a revaluation within the Urdu examination acquired sufficient marks to be declared as handed,” he added.
Khaira additional claimed he’d been informed that candidates gave senior officers within the income division Rs 1 lakh per topic to assist them go the examination utilizing the revaluation route. “Since there was now a cloud over the revaluation outcomes, the 43 candidates who had managed to clear the Urdu examination ought to be requested to learn and write in Urdu to verify in the event that they actually know the language.”
(Edited by Anumeha Saxena)
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