Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday said that all three exams conducted by the Service Selection Board (SSB) that were canceled by LG after allegations of irregularities will be now held afresh in November and selection will purely be based on merit.
Addressing a function at SKICC here, Sinha said that gone are the days when jobs were sold on roads and streets of Kashmir and Jammu.
“We canceled the exams conducted by the SSB after allegations of irregularities and ordered a CBI inquiry. Some arrests were made and more are likely to be made,” he said.
“All the three canceled exams will now be held afresh in November," he added.
In the past three years, 30,000 youth got jobs, everyone can’t get a government job and that’s why the administration started self-employment schemes, he said.
He said anti-peace elements always try to destabilize peace by killing innocents and some try to do it by “making unjustified statements” which leads to disruption of the peaceful atmosphere.
“Law will take strict action against those making statements that vitiate the peaceful atmosphere,” he added.
(KNO)