The 165th Board meeting of the J&K Services Selection Board was held here today under the Chairmanship of Khalid Jahangir, Chairman, J&K SSB.
The meeting was attended by the Members of the Boardincluding M.Shafiq Chak, Pritam Lal Atri, Harvinder Kour, Prof. Tasleema Peer,Controller of Examination JKSSB Musheer Ahmad Mirza, Special Secretary (Legal)Jung Bhadur and Secretary, JKSSB Ranjeet Singh besides other officers of theBoard.
During the meeting, extensive discussions were held onvarious issues which inter alia included selection of Naib Tehsildars, matterlying subjudice before the High Court in the wake of number of writ petitionsfiled by various candidates in this regard.
Pertinently, the High Courthas dismissed all the writ petitions so filed in its judgement dated 10thMarch, thereby upholding the stand of the Board in relation to the procedureadopted for preparing the select list. In the said backdrop, the matter wasplaced before the Board for consideration and appropriate decision. The Boardafter considering all the relevant aspects including the judgement passed bythe High Court, resolved to publish the select list prepared on the basis ofthe merit obtained by the candidates in the written examination and interview.It was also decided that two vacancies shall be kept reserved in pursuance ofthe orders of the High Court in SWP Nos. 2395/2018 and 939/2018.
It would be relevant to addthat the Services Selection Board vide Notification No. 01 of 2015 Dated:07/04/2015 advertised 155 posts of Naib Tehsildars. 1,01,077 candidates appliedfor the aforementioned 155 Posts of Naib tehsildars, out of which 62,789candidates appeared in the written examination. On the basis of the marksobtained by the candidates in the written examination, 873 candidates wereshortlisted for interview. In the meanwhile, a number of candidates approachedthe High Court challenging therein various aspects of the selection procedureadopted by the Board, including for testing working knowledge of Urdu of thecandidates.
In addition, the Board also considered a few other agendaitems including representations regarding the post of Technician for Animaloperation under item no. 22, GMC Rajouri.
The Board agreed to dispose of all the agenda items inaccordance with the extant norms.