Srinagar, Feb 28, : Hundreds of Jammu and Kashmir Bank employees and job aspirants staged a protest outside the head office of the Bank, protesting against the cancellation of recruitment notice of 2108.
News agency reports, the protesting employees and aspirants falling under the post 2018 recruitment notice, will be affected by the cancellation of the said recruitment notice are in thousands, which include working 250 Probationary Officers and more about 1200 aspirants, who are waiting announcement of the selection list, after appearing in two sets of examinations for the post of Banking Associate.
The protestors were raising slogans against the cancellation order and said that, their future has been plunged into darkness, with a single stroke of pen.
They also alleged that the Bank Management is playing with their future, when unemployment is at all time high in Jammu and Kashmir.
They said, “On one side government is claiming to create job opportunities, after giving Jammu and Kashmir a Union Territory status and the other, all the avenues of employment are being choked.”
“Irony is that even the future of those who are already employed and those who were living in a hope to get employed have been subjected to shock, by playing with their future”, they added.
Pertinently the recruitment process prior to the fall of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led coalition has drawn flak on many accounts, including the serious allegation of corruption and nepotism.
The policy had also drawn opposition for the aspirants from Jammu division, who raised their protest against the cut off fixation for them qualifying bank exams in comparison to aspirants for Kashmir and Ladakh, which they alleged was a discrimination with the job aspiring youth of the division reported news agency CNS.
