Jammu &Kashmir Public Service Commission members cry
foul
Hired
as ‘consultants’ and computer operators, these officials have, for long, been
handling critical data of examinations and evaluation and allegedly faced
charges of selective leakage.
According
to a bundle of documents provided to the Governor and accessed by The Hindu, dissident member
Masood Samoon was on leave when PSC secretary T.S. Ashok Kumar fixed November
15, 2012, as the date for the commission’s 10th meeting. Before his departure for Haj,
Mr. Samoon had levelled an unprecedented accusation on the chairman’s only
loyalist member, alleging that Mr. Khizar Mohammad Wani had accessed the merit
list of the previous years’ Kashmir Combined Civil Services examination, a.k.a.
Kashmir Administrative Service, far before it was revealed to other members and
notified.
Two
other dissident members, Javed Makhdoomi and Kulbhushan Jandial, were surprised
to note that approval of the results of Kashmir Civil Service (Judicial)
Examination and a government-sponsored proposal to amend the Commission’s rules
of business and procedure were on the agenda of the November 15 meeting. Both
the members wrote a joint letter to the chairman seeking postponement of the
meeting until Mr. Samoon’s return. They demanded that the contractually-engaged
officials be discharged and removed from the process of selection of the junior
judges (munsiffs).
Bureaucrats
at the State government’s Law Department are said to have played a key role in
drafting the amendment to the rules, aimed at stripping the PSC members of
their powers and shifting the same to the chairman. It would indeed be easier
for members of the bureaucracy and politicians to run their writ in the fully
autonomous and constitutionally independent multi-member commission.
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