THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj June 28: A poor 1,629 applications for the recruitment of fourth-grade personnel have been received in the office of the District Employment Exchange Daltonganj till June 27.
The last date for submitting duly filled-in applications with all requisite documents to the office of the District Employment Exchange is July 5.
Palamu District Employment Officer Dhananjay Kumar has confirmed receipt of only 1,629 applications for the recruitment of fourth-grade personnel in this district as of June 27.
Palamu administration has advertised a total of 585 posts of fourth grade, out of which a little over 300 posts are reserved.
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Postal Timelines Crucial for Applicants
Here is a word of caution. All applications are to be sent to the District Employment Office either by registered post or by speed post.
Thus, to reach the applications here in this office latest by 5 pm on July 5, an applicant is to post his application, to be on the safe side, latest by July 2 or 3 as post offices take 2 to 3 days in delivering the registered post or the speed post.
Indian Post assures same city delivery of the registered post or speed post, either the next day or two days from the date of booking for registered or speed post.
However, when the registered post or the speed post is to come from other than the same city or from far-off places, the delivery of the registered post or the speed post takes 3 days or more.
Hence, applicants have been advised to post their applications, keeping in mind the last date.
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Rumours and Media Reports Stall Application Flow
This drastic slump in filing the applications has arisen because of some statements coming on social media and in a section of the print media adverse in connotation to the text of the administration’s advertisement, without any corroborative version or the rebuttal of the state government.
Administrative sources said there is no corroborative version nor any rebuttal of the ‘information’ that was so enormously made viral, putting the whole recruitment process at peril.
Sources said the state government must issue either a corroborative version or a rebuttal of what was made viral in the past week in connection with the fourth-grade employment.
Sources said the local officials here can’t afford to step on it as they have no ‘locus standi’ in this matter.
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Call for Clarification from State Government
What are the options of the local administration here?
The Jharkhand Story has compiled a list of options based on the ‘discourses’ of the stakeholders.
- It will be no less a harakiri of the administration if it ever decides to enlarge the last date.
- There are two sects of people, one all out for the recruitment and the other to torpedo it by all means. These two are poles apart. No two sides is any ready to listen to each other.
- It’s a no-win situation in the local administration following this huge slump of the filing of applications. The earlier the information, misinformation or disinformation is explained, the better it is. The dispenser of doubts is to be in the state government and not at the local level of bureaucracy, since stakeholders want to know about it from the higher echelons of power.
