Haryana Govt. flayed for exam. postponement

By Our Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, JUNE 18. The President of the Haryana unit of the Congress, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has flayed the State Government for postponing the Haryana Civil Service (HCS) Executive examination indefinitely.

In a statement, Mr.Hooda said the Haryana Public Service Commission had advertised the posts of HCS (Executive) in 1998. Since then, the date of examinations had been fixed twice, first in March 2000 and then on June 16, but the examinations were postponed on both the occasions without any reasonable cause.

While postponing the examinations, the State Government had advanced the argument that it had done so in view of a writ petition filed in the High Court seeking postponement on the ground that the date of HCS examination was clashing with the academic examinations in the various Universities of Haryana. However, Mr. Hooda claimed that the High Court, while dismissing the writ, had not pronounced any order for postponing the examination.

He charged that there was a conspiracy behind the repeated postponement. The State Government was merely harassing the youth unmindful of the unemployment problem.Moreover, many aspirants who came to Chandigarh from all over the State and spent money on hotels and so on had to go back disappointed. Moreover, the employees of the State Government who were eligible for the examination had taken long study leave but to no avail.

Mr. Hooda further alleged that the State Government had made a mockery of the HCS examination while other States such as Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and so on are holding the examinations regularly without considering the number of vacant posts.

While disclosing that the High Court had last year given a direction to fill about 300 HCS judiciary vacancies within three years, he charged that in the last examination which was conducted in May 2000, only 12 vacancies had been advertised.

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