7 months on, MP patwari recruitment exam given a clean chit; orders issued

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday approved the issuance of appointment letters to successful candidates in a recruitment examination held last year after a one-man committee that probed the examination did not find any irregularities. 7 months on, MP patwari recruitment exam given a clean chit; orders issued The MP government’s general adminration department order comes after a clean chit the one-man committee of retired high court judge, justice Rajendra Kumar Verma, which was set up following allegations that the examination for Group-2, Sub-Group-4 and patwari recruitment examination conducted the MP Employees Selection Board was rigged. Discover the thrill of cricket like never before, exclusively on HT. Explore now! Concerns about the irregularities emerged after the results were declared on June 30 and it transpired that seven of the ten candidates who topped the examination were from the examination centre, NRI college, which was run Sanjeev Kushwaha, who was then the Bharatiya Janata Party’s sitting Bhind MLA. With the state elections just a few months away, then chief miner Shivraj Singh Chouhan paused the recruitment process and ordered a probe on July 20. A government official said the retired judge submitted his report last month. “The report said there are many colleges from where a large number of students were selected so NRI college was not the only college from where a large number of students were selected.” Former union miner and Congress leader, Arun Yadav demanded a proper probe the Central Bureau of Investigation, saying the move to get a retired judge to investigate the alleged scandal was a whitewash. Ranjit Kisanvanshi, who led the student protests against the alleged irregularities, demanded that the probe committee report should be made public so that the public can also see how undeserving candidates actually got selected. “During media interviews, the so-called meritorious candidates were asked basic questions related to the name of prime miner, president and chief miner but some of them even failed to answer them,” said Kisanvanshi. ABOUT THE AUTHOR She is a senior reporter based at Bhopal. She covers higher education, social issues, youth affairs, woman and child development related issues, sports and business & industries. …view detail