The Kashmir Pulse

SRINAGAR — The J&K Public Service Commission today declared the result of the Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2022.

According to the communique of JKPSC, the Commission in its extraordinary meeting held today on 22-08-2023, after the conclusion of the interviews, decided to declare the result of all the candidates who had appeared in the interview and also notify their aggregate marks while publishing a list of candidates to be summoned for Medical Examination in accordance with the relevant rules.

The communique also reads that the General Administration Department had on April 18, 2022 referred 220 posts to the J&K Public Service Commission for being filled up through the Combined Competitive Examination and accordingly, these posts were advertised by the Commission on April 19, 2022.

The communique further reads that the Preliminary Examination of CCE-2022 was conducted on July 31, 2022 in which 23,571 candidates appeared and the result of the preliminary examination (CCE-2022) was declared on August 18, 2022.

It adds that 4944 candidates were declared to have qualified for appearing in the Main (Written) examination of CCE-2022 and 3891 candidates actually appeared in the examination, held from February 20, 2023 to March 02, 2023, out of which 787 candidates were declared to have qualified for appearing in the interview/personality test, which were held from July 10, 2023 to August 22, 2023.

For the convenience of candidates, the JKPSC this year requested the Health & Medical Education Department to conduct the medical examination of candidates in newly established Medical Colleges, besides GMC Jammu/Srinagar and all the selected candidates are requested to attend any of the Government Medical Colleges (GMCs of Srinagar, Jammu, Anantnag, Baramulla, Doda, Handwara, Kathua, Rajouri or Udhampur) for medical examination on August 23 and 24, 2023 along with six photographs, the communique adds.

The Commission has congratulated Anmol Rathore daughter of Rajiv Rathore, a law graduate, who has topped the overall list securing 1084.50 marks.

It is pertinent to mention that in January 2023, JKPSC declared the result of CCE-2021 and today, the JKPSC completed the process of selection, based on a three-tier examination comprising the preliminary, the mains and the personality test/viva voce in 16 months.

JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission has strongly countered the ‘information being shared on social media as well as press statements issued by a number of political parties, seeking rescheduling of the J&K Combined Competitive (Main) Examination proposed to be held from the 8th April 2022 to 17th April 2022’ and clarified its position with regard to conduct of J&K Combined Competitive (Main) Examination, 2021.

To set the record straight, dates and events relevant and leading to the conduct of the J&K Combined Competitive (Main) Examination from April 8, 2022, the JKPSC has reproduced the factual details.

The details describe that the preliminary exam was held on October 24, 2021; 20790 candidates appeared in the examination; preliminary exam results were declared on November 13, 2021, and 4545 candidates were declared eligible for appearing in the J&K Combined Competitive (Main) Examination, 2021; first public notice issued on 13th November indicating first fortnight of February 2022 as the likely date of start of Mains examinations; second notification inviting applications for Mains was issued on November 26 indicating date of exam commencement as February 14, 2022; keeping in view the onset of the third wave of COVID-19 and conduct of Indian Forest Service Examination, March 8, 2022, was fixed for the commencement of J&K Combined Competitive (Main) examination, 2021. However, this was revised to March 10 so as to facilitate candidates appearing in the IFoS examination by issuing a notification, dated February 22.

JKPSC further said that a few unqualified candidates approached High Court on 21-02-2022 and obtained interim orders which were contested by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission. Due to these interim orders, certain contingencies arose and resultantly exam had to be postponed on March 9 till further notice.

The High Court reserved the Judgment on March 16, 2022, and the same was announced on 01-04-2022 and public notice (date-sheet) was issued on 01-04-2022 itself for the conduct of the J&K Combined Competitive (Main) Examination from April 8, 2022 - April 17, 2022.

Attempts have been made to mislead the general public with reference to Rule 32 of Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (Business Rules & Procedure) Rules, 2021 claiming that the rule envisages an intimation period of at least one month before the commencement of the examination. To put things in perspective, it is important to refer to rules 26 (Receipt of Applications), 27 (Scrutiny of Applications), 28 (Determination of Eligibility) and 29 (Appellate Authority) of said rules before conclusions are made since Rule 32 is to be read conjointly with the aforementioned rules and is not to be read in isolation.

To make things even clearer, it is vehemently reiterated that Rule 32 is relevant only when a fresh notification for recruitment is issued and in the present case, the chronology of dates makes it amply clear that since the issuance of the first notice on November 13, 2021, almost 145 number of days have passed and for the candidates to claim that sufficient notice has not been provided is nothing but a mischievous attempt to mislead and cast aspersions on the fairness of the process adopted by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission.

The Commission makes it clear that it is making every effort to conduct the J&K Combined Competitive (Mains) Examination, 2021 in a fair and transparent manner and the same shall be held from April 8, 2022, as per the date sheet already notified in this regard.

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC) has deferred the scheduled dates for Combined Competitive (Mains) examinations till further notice.

“It is notified for information of the candidates that Jammu and Kashmir Combined Competitive (Mains) examinations 2021 scheduled to be held from 10.03.2022 to 17.03.2022 is deferred till further notice”, reads a notification as per GNS.