Arunachal Pradesh State Service Board (APSSB) capital bandh on Feb 28

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Itanagar: Reacting to the Arunachal Pradesh State Service Board (APSSB) job scandal, the All Nyishi Youth Association (ANYA) has stated that had the State Government heeded to its demand of implementing district-wise quota for recruitment of group C & D posts under APSSB Act 2018 it would have never happened.

The ANYA, which had declared a 12-hour capital bandh on October 18 last year to press for its demand which was however called off after ‘assurance’ from the State Government, has once again called for another dawn-to-dusk bandh in Capital Complex on February 28 to press for its ‘unfulfilled’ demand.

“We thought that the Board was working efficiently and the unemployed youths of the state would benefit from it. But there is so much corruption involved, who would you believe now?” questioned ANYA president Byabang Joram.

Reacting to transfer of the APSSB officials, he said that they should all be suspended and arrested, and not transferred so that free and fair investigation can be done.

“Removing the chairman and other officials is just an eye wash. If someone else holds the post now, the case would not be the same again. It’s not fair,” he said.

The ANYA president also called for examining all other recruitment exams conducted by the Board since its inception.

“It’s better for the government to go back to its old ways of conducting the recruitment district-wise. We have been against it since the beginning,” he said adding that though the state government has passed order for making recruitment district-wise it has not been implementing till now.

The Association’s other unfulfilled demands include scraping of Government e-Marketplace (GeM) – an online platform for public procurement, government intervention in the Dollungmukh boundary dispute issue and offspring issue, immediate construction of Trans-Arunachal Highway (TAH) stretches from Potin to Bopi and Joram to Koloriang as per DPR, and early notification of Puchi-Geko, Muri-Mugli and Gepen administrative circles under Kamle district police jurisdiction and for posting of adequate police personnel.

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