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Miseries of un-employed youth

Kashmir Times. Dated: 4/25/2017 11:14:40 AM

Dear Editor,
The future of our youth is bleak in J&K. what else can be said where the state PSC has no credibility in the eyes of the aspirants. Each year hundreds of posts are announced, however the fate of the aspirants is decided not by the fair conduct of exams but corruption, nepotism and politics. Last year over 250 posts were announced of which the Combined Competitive Preliminary exam was conducted on March 19' 2017. Recently the result was announced and like every year a large number of candidates who were expecting a score above the official cut off of 270.477 are nowhere in the list.
Definitely it cannot be in the nature of each of these candidates to over quote their score for prestige purpose. To top it all, the body did not even come out with an answer key this time. What can be the reason is understandable. In the absence of an official answer key, candidates cannot be sure of their score of which PSC takes undue advantage to favour all those it wants to. PSC has been recently accused of a multitude of other discrepancies, but it seems to be having a free reign. The precious future of students is in the hands of a vicious body which needs a complete overhaul.
—Sheena Maini,
319 Dalpatian Pir Mitha, Jammu