The News Craving
The Newscraving Desk
Srinagar, December 10:
Concerns have mounted over the Jammu and Kashmir Service Selection Board promoting nepotism in the examinations for different jobs.
Students have raised allegations through a recent writ petition that a tender was floated to empanel an agency for conduct of its various examinations through Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) mode exams vide e-NIT No.01 of 2021. ” In that tender, one ND Info Systems Private Limited was the successful bidder but the contract was awarded to one Merit Trac Services Pvt. Ltd. overlooking the fact that in pre-qualification evaluation for e-NIT No.01 of 2021, the Merit Trac Services Private Ltd. clearly and in unambiguous terms mentioned itself to be a blacklisted firm,” the court documents accessed by The Newascraing show.The documents further suggest that Merit Track Services Pvt. Ltd. conducted the examinations of Junior Engineer (Civil) (Jal Shakti Department) on 20 March this year and Sub Inspector (Home Department) on 29 March besides the Finance Account Assistant exam. “The malpractice occurred during the aforesaid examinations and the examination conducted by the said Merit Trac Services Pvt. Ltd. was compromised as papers were leaked, as a consequence of which these two examinations among others were scrapped. The matter at presently is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and recently the CBI has filed charge-sheet in these matter,” the documents reveal. “Since the contract was given to a blacklisted agency, this was the precise reason that malpractices occurred and the matter at presently is being investigated by the CBI.”
The documents further show that another blacklisted agency hired by JKSSB Aptech was involved in UP Jal Nigam recruitment scam where 1188 appointments were canceled out of 1300 post in 2020 after investigation by STF. In the Rajasthan Police constable recruitment scam, Aptech was hired and exam held in 2017, after complaint investigation was started in the complaint that director of Aptech infotech with the help of others aided in hacking IP. “ UPPCL hired Aptech Ltd for exam in 2018 after irregularities via, system mirroring, and various other modes by STF exam scrapped and firm blacklisted for three years from May, 2019 to May, 2022.”