Friday, 24 February 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has said that the cancer of the recruitment scams was spreading like an incurable disease in Uttarakhand and it had become necessary to perform a surgery to remove it. He participated in a signature campaign organised by the students for bringing transparency and sanctity of the recruitment examinations at Rudrapur on Thursday. The students also expressed their gratitude to the CM for bringing a stringent anti-copying law in the State.
The CM also put his signature by writing, ‘All the competitive examinations will be free from the cheating and will be transparent. You should prepare for the examinations. The recruitment will be done as per the calendar and the time of our brothers and sisters will not get wasted.’
The CM said that this time some students had expressed fear that the VPDO recruitment examination paper was leaked and prima facie it appeared that the irregularities had happened. Dhami said that then only he had decided that we will also get the old recruitments investigated after which more than 60 persons involved in the crime were sent to jail. He told the students that the State government has brought the most stringent of the laws in the country to uproot the irregularities in the examinations. The new law has a provision of life imprisonment and confiscation of the entire property of the culprits. The CM added that applicants would be debarred for three years if found engaged in using unfair means for the first time and on repetition of the offence they would not be able to take part in any examination for a period of ten years. He said that the children are the future of our country and no one should be allowed to play with their future. The CM said that poor parents spend their lifetime savings on educating their children and if a burglary of such kind happens then they would have nothing in their hands. He said that the State government would not cut the jobs even though it lacks resources. The CM said that the calendar of recruitment examinations has been released and the recruitments would be done in a transparent and fair manner so that eligible candidates get jobs. Dhami said that in the recent Patwari- Lekhpal examinations, 1,03,000 candidates took part and they were given free transport facility in the buses of Uttarakhand roadways. A similar facility is being given to the applicants of the PCS mains examinations.
The MLA Shiv Arora, mayor Rampal Singh, former MLA Rajesh Shukla and others were also present on the occasion.
