While celebrations sprouted at the camps protesting against the Jharkhand government on the irregularities over the JSSC CGL and JPSC CGL 2024 exams, despair filled another. The decision by the Hemant Soren-led government was prompted nearly a month after job aspirants held protests demanding the cancellation of the state exams conducted by an external agency, TSR Data Processing Private, over irregularities. However, the recent announcement has sparked another protest by nearly 2,000 people who were selected through the recent exams held and fear losing their jobs.
Interacting with the reporters, Raghuvendra a job aspirant told ,”It was the chief minister himself who handed me my appointment letter, and now he is the one who has taken my job away.”
Hailing from Chatra, he had cleared the CGL exam and works in the Secretariat. Priorly he worked as teacher in Gaya.He explained, “When the CGL recruitment results were declared, I had some apprehensions about joining. But when the Supreme Court ruled on January 5, 2026, against cancelling the recruitment, I resigned from my teaching post in Gaya on January 8. I have now crossed the age limit for recruitment exams. Had the government cancelled it earlier, I wouldn’t have joined in the first place. Now, I am left with nothing – neither here nor there.”
Another employee, Sandeep Yadav, a resident of Koderma, was employed in the Vigilance Department, working at his office in Project Bhawan from 10 am to 6 pm every day. On Tuesday, however, he was denied entry to that very office. Sandeep said, “The guard checked my ID card and told me I wasn’t allowed inside. I joined last year after clearing the exam. I didn’t get the job through anyone’s charity. Yet, today, I am not permitted to enter. The government took this decision under pressure from the crowd.”
Another aspirant who is the sole breadwinner of the family, who got married two months ago, asked his wife to call off the marriage in view of the recent announcement. Sandeep fears the job loss will affect his marriage as well. “When I went home, I told them, ‘You married me because I had a job. Now, I don’t have one. If you wish, you can end this relationship.’
The JPSC and JSSC exams this year have been in the controversy since January. At the very beginning, the paper was leaked, while paper was leaked, and the test was immediately cancelled. Later, the commission conducted a re-exam in September, and serious allegations of irregularities surfaced again….