Shutting down the Staff Selection Commission is not a solution to the problem: Jairam
Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition Jairam Thakur while talking to reporters in Shimla said that strictest action should be taken against whoever is found guilty in Hamirpur Staff Selection Commission and delay in the ongoing investigation process. Should not happen.
There is a demand from our government that there is a delay in the recruitment process of about 4000 youths under 39 codes in the Selection Commission, their future should be kept in mind and an alternate mechanism should be brought to the ground as soon as possible.
As the recruitment process is getting delayed, the age of the youth is also increasing and at some places people are getting out of the eligibility criteria in giving the exam.
It’s a topic of concern
Jairam asked the government that if the closure of the Staff Selection Commission solves the problem? If irregularities are found in any institution, then closing it is not the solution to the problem.
The government should also tell that if an alternative process is set up, then what is the guarantee that it will work with transparency in an impartial manner.
Today, if an irregularity has been found regarding the number of a scooter in the Transport Department, will the Transport Department itself be closed?
He said that the Subordinate Services Selection Board was constituted in Himachal Pradesh by the then Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal in October 1998 and thereafter it was renamed as Staff Selection Commission in 2016.
It was formed because a report of a committee had come under which it was found that there were lot of irregularities in class 3 and class 4 recruitments in Himachal Pradesh and many types of rigging were also taking place in it.
Since then this selection commission is playing a big role, today due to the closure of the commission the youth will have to go round Shimla.
Hamirpur was such a place which is also considered as the center point of Himachal, where traffic can be done easily.
He said that Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh is talking that people from top to bottom are involved, this is not a clear sentence. In this commission, all the recruitments are done through the secretary and if the allegations against the secretary are proved, then the strictest action should be taken. But somewhere it seems that this commission has been closed only to remove the chairman and members of this board.
Explain that the chairman and member of the board have no role in the selection process.
He said that this government is trying to change the term and condition of many tenders across the state and this is wrong and we oppose it. There are many tenders in which the central government also has a part, it should not be messed with.
He said that this is the first time that a Chief Minister has given a political speech on the occasion of Mahashivaratri in Mandi, an initiative which is not commendable. He said that even the place of Mandi Mahashivaratri was filled with Congress flags, this has never happened till date. During the time of our government, the government was promoted but the party was never promoted.
He said that the festival of Mahashivaratri is a festival related to the Dev culture and if the people associated with the Dev culture get an opportunity to present their performance, it would have been better and we should always encourage the artists of Himachal.
