After weeks of protests over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations, the Hemant Soren government in Jharkhand has accepted several key demands of the protesting students.
The state has decided to cancel the JSSC-CGL examination and scrap all examinations and recruitment-related activities conducted by Lucknow-based TSR Data Processing Private Limited (TDPL).
Soren also announced a wider probe into recruitment examinations conducted in Jharkhand since 2014, saying the CID would investigate irregularities irrespective of whether they were “big or small”.
#WATCH | Ranchi: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren says, "Addressing all aspects of the issue, we have decided to cancel everything associated with TDPL—including the examinations conducted, the results published, the candidates selected or who participated, and all other activities… pic.twitter.com/ZVeZ1j8j61
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The government will additionally set up an examination reforms committee headed by senior IAS officer Amitabh Kaushal to recommend measures for making the recruitment process more transparent and preventing irregularities.
The announcement came on Monday, August 17, amid sustained student protests and after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi urged Soren to personally meet representatives of the protesting students and resolve their grievances. Gandhi had described their demands as legitimate and their agitation as peaceful, putting additional political pressure on the JMM-led government to address the issue.
