Chandigarh: Two recruitment exams carried out by the Haryana Public Service Fee (HPSC) within the final two months have turn into technique of potential embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Celebration-led Haryana authorities.
On Saturday, Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Sanjeev Balyan, a Jat chief from western Uttar Pradesh, questioned recruitment exams carried out for agriculture improvement officers (ADO) and veterinary surgeons.
The event is important — not solely as a result of the BJP-led Khattar authorities within the state prides itself on its “clear” recruitment course of but additionally as a result of the allegation comes from a Jat chief from throughout the river. To place this right into a political context, Haryana is a state dominated by Jat politics.
HPSC, the federal government company chargeable for recruitment to Group A and Group B posts (posts of gazetted officers) within the state, carried out each exams.
Balyan, who was talking at a media interplay after a convocation ceremony at Lala Lajpat Rai College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (LUVAS) in Hisar, Haryana, claimed that the standards for the ADO examination carried out final November required candidates to attain a minimum of 50 per cent marks in a written examination that 0.25 unfavorable marks per query. This meant that “solely 57 candidates have been chosen for the put up of ADO”, he mentioned.
“I talked with HPSC officers and informed them that many aspirants who had cracked the agriculture scientists’ recruitment board nationwide eligibility check couldn’t qualify for the examination. The officers informed me that that they had assigned the duty to somebody to set the paper.”
He additionally questioned the veterinary surgeon examination, carried out earlier this month. Official reply key for the examination had a minimum of 26 incorrect solutions, he claimed, asking Haryana Agriculture Minister J.P. Dalal, who was additionally on the interplay, to treatment the scenario.
“Dalal saab, you’re the state agriculture minister. Please elevate this demand,” he informed Dalal. We all know that the HPSC is a constitutional physique however that doesn’t imply they’ll set examination papers with out following norms. I’ll discuss to the chief minister additionally on this regard. Duty must be mounted.”
Balyan’s allegation has given ammunition to Opposition Congress, which is now demanding accountability.
Tweeting a video of Balyan, senior Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala requested Chief Minister Khattar now that the federal government ought to admit “there was a rip-off within the recruitments and the federal government ought to disband the HPSC”.
खट्टर साहेब,
अब तो भाजपा के केंद्रीय मंत्री भी HPSC की 26 “आंसर की” ग़लत देने और “ग़लत पेपर” सेट करने को लेकर दोषी ठहरा रहे हैं।
अब तो फर्जीवाड़ा स्वीकार करें और #HPSC को भंग करें।
कब तक आप और दुष्यंत चौटाला युवाओं के भविष्य से खिलवाड़ करेंगे? pic.twitter.com/iNGM54YtRI
— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) January 28, 2023
Congress normal secretary Kumari Selja alleged that the recruitment course of for jobs in Haryana had turn into a joke underneath the present state authorities.
“The federal government has been shattering the goals of youths. Corruption and scams rule the roost,” Kumari Selja mentioned in her tweet in Hindi.
भाजपा-जजपा सरकार ने प्रदेश में सरकारी नौकरी की भर्तियों का मजाक बनाकर रख दिया है। सरकार लगातार युवाओं के सपनों को चकनाचूर करने का कार्य कर रही है।
हर तरफ फर्जीवाड़ों, भ्रष्टाचार और गड़बड़झालों का आलम है।https://t.co/8nso2z7bwN
— Kumari Selja (@kumari_selja) January 28, 2023
On its half, the HPSC claims that it’s trying into it and that the reply key can be revised if vital.
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‘Trying into it’
Balyan mentioned Saturday that he had spoken to officers on the HPSC and had been assured that candidates wouldn’t be made to endure.
“However the query is that if solutions to 26 questions within the reply key are incorrect, doesn’t this name for an motion towards these chargeable for this blunder,” he requested.
Dalal, in the meantime, admitted that it had been dropped at his discover that solely 10 per cent out of 600 posts ADOs had been stuffed.
“The Haryana authorities will certainly look into it and take some motion towards these behind such query papers,” he mentioned.
Hours after the press convention, HPSC issued a clarification saying that it had adopted process and that candidates had been given two days to state their objections to the reply key.
“The written check for the put up of Veterinary Surgeon was held on 15 January. The Fee vide its announcement dated 23 January uploaded the usual query booklet and the reply key on its web site and suggested the candidates to file their objections, if any, newest as much as 25 January. That is the usual apply adopted by the Fee in all its exams,” HPSC mentioned in an official assertion. “The Fee is collating all these objections and can shorty ship them to the specialists for his or her views/ feedback. If wanted, the reply key can be revised as per the recommendation of the knowledgeable committee, and accordingly, the results of the written check can be ready.”
The aim was to “guarantee equity and transparency”, the assertion mentioned.
“This additionally safeguards the pursuits of the scholars. Any hypothesis relating to the preparation of outcomes with out contemplating the objections raised by the scholars are baseless and incorrect,” the assertion additional learn.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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