Ranchi, Aug 17: The All Jharkhand Students Union (Kacchap Group), supported by the Jharkhand Peoples Party of Surya Singh Besra, called a 24-hour statewide bandh to protest the August 17 State Public Service Commission's 'prelim' examination.
The JPSC would conduct the preliminary on Sunday in 300 centres across the state in which about 1.4 lakh candidates would appear.
The Arjun Munda government was "repeating the May 27 mistake" by conducting 'prelims' for the State Administrative Service without formulating a clear-cut reservation policy, Ajsu (Kacchap) Central Secretary Vimal Kacchap and the Jharkhand People's Party President Besra told a joint press conference here.
The High Court last year had passed an interim order against the government's 73 per cent reservation policy, asking it not to exceed the 50 per cent mark, pending a final verdict by the Supreme Court on Tamil Nadu government's 69 per cent reservation policy.
"Instead of challenging the interim order that went against the state government in the apex court, the state is going ahead with recruitment tests...We will not allow it to happen unless clear-cut reservation and domicile policies are framed," the two said. The Chief Minister also 'failed' to call an all-party meeting which he had announced sometime back, the two leaders alleged.



The teachers' recruitment test on May 27 was marred by violence in Ranchi in which a woman and a child were killed.


Bureau Report