THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, Oct 2: Palamu police has admonished rumour mongers about the ongoing recruitment drive for Chowkidars.
A late night, a little over 11 o’clock on Tuesday there came a public notice under the signature of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate Sadar Medininagar Sulochana Meena warning vested interests to refrain and abstain from spreading canard/ falsehood about the ongoing recruitment drive for Chowkidars.
The public notice read any spread of fake news unsubstantiated and without any evidence on social media platforms or even forwarding such stuff on WhatsApp groups will invite serious penal action against the doers.
Assurance of fairness and transparency
The public notice further reads that the recruitment drive for Chowkidars has been a very transparent workout where a candidate was given sufficient time and opportunity to make claim or claims and where there came claims, it was candidly looked into and decisions to claims were taken in accordance with the conditions as laid down of the recruitment test.
There was fairness and transparency at every stage of the drive, emphasised the public notice of the SDM Sadar Medininagar Sulochana Meena.
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This correspondent spotted a couple of men having sheaves of papers in their hands in Palamu collectorate on Tuesday who were looking for gullible media persons to give them their ears so that they can convince the media persons as to where the big hole lies in the recruitment drive for Chowkidars.
One of them tried to approach this Jharkhand Story correspondent too but couldn’t muster the courage to narrate as the men knew there would come counter questions to them.
The interesting thing is that these men were no candidate themselves. They were making arguments by proxy.
Recruitment overview and candidate participation
The recruitment drive for Chowkidars is for 155 posts here in Palamu district.
A total of 5,418 candidates appeared in the written test for the 155 posts of Chowkidars here in Palamu last week.
A 90-minute exam on optical mark reader called OMR sheet began at 3 pm and lasted till 4.30 pm with no incident of rustication or impersonation, said the district education officer Durganand Jha.
15 exam centres were set up for the written test for the posts of Chowkidars, said the nodal officer examination Md Jawed Hussain who is the city commissioner here in Daltonganj.
6,422 applications came for 155 vacant seats of the Chowkidars.
1,004 candidates remained absent from the OMR sheet written exam for the Chowkidar recruitment test, read an official note.
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No reservation for SC candidates
The posts of Chowkidars which see Scheduled Caste candidates more in numbers always had a contrast this exam, when there was no reserved seat for the SC candidates.
However, an SC candidate is free to apply for the general seat where the SC candidate can’t claim any benefit at all like age or height.
For a general candidate, the upper age is 35 years while for the ST candidates, the maximum age is 40 years.
Similarly, a general candidate has to be 160 cm in height but it is 155 cm for the ST candidates.
Additional Collector’s statement on reservation
Additional collector Kundan Kumar said, “It’s not bypassing or tweaking on the reservation roster at all.”
The fleet of Chowkidars has had already a surfeit of the SC fellows, said the additional collector.
Any reservation now for the SC would have been a violation of the reservation roster he clarified.
Zero posts for SC candidates, but generals had 78 posts of Chowkidars, 13 for EWS (economically weaker section), 30 posts for ST, 10 for OBC and 24 for extremely backward classes in Palamu, read an official document of the Palamu district Chowkidar section.
