Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, together with Cupboard Ministers, addresses the media late at evening time time and confirms the choice to cancel the JPSC and JSSC examination papers at Endeavor Growing, in Ranchi, on August 17, 2026.
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The Jharkhand authorities on Tuesday evening time time (August 18, 2026) launched its choice to cancel 22 recruitment exams over complaints of irregularities and “primarily based on info launched ahead of the federal authorities via the CID investigation”, amid school school students’ protests over the issue.
Issuing a complete of eight notifications, the State authorities listed the assorted examinations carried out by the TSR Data Processing Personal Restricted (TDPL) agency which have been cancelled. The federal authorities has furthermore cancelled the outcomes of examinations the place the preliminary work was carried out by an agency aside from TDPL.
“A necessity for examination reforms has arisen in delicate of data launched ahead of the federal authorities and choices obtained by way of fairly a number of channels via the course of CID/SIT investigations into complaints concerning irregularities in present and former examinations carried out by the Jharkhand Public Service Fee (JPSC) and the Jharkhand Employees Different Fee (JSSC), “ the federal authorities mentioned.
The cancelled exams embrace the eleventh to thirteenth JPSC exams, together with the CDPO and JSSC-CGL examinations. Together with it, six examinations have been postponed, adopted by a CID investigation.
A different has furthermore been made to have 17 further examinations investigated by the CID, taking the whole rely of exams being probes to 23.
All through the official notification, the State authorities mentioned {{{that a}}} request shall be made to the Excessive Courtroom docket to characterize a fast-track court docket docket docket for the trial of circumstances registered concerning “irregularities and misconduct” all through the Jharkhand Public Service Fee (JPSC)/Jharkhand Employees Different Fee (JSSC) examinations.
Furthermore, the committee constituted for reforms in JPSC-JSSC beneath senior IAS officer Amitabh Kaushal will submit its report once more to the federal authorities in two months’ time.
The recruitment examinations, which has been cancelled, included Non-Instructing Posts in Universities of Jharkhand (2025), Assistant Director/Senior Scientific Officer (2025), Drug Inspector (2025), Assistant Professor in Authorities Engineering colleges (Backlog-2026), Lecturer in Authorities Polytechnic/Authorities Women’s Polytechnic (Backlog -2026), Assistant Professor in Medical Colleges (Tremendous Specialist) Division (2026).
The federal authorities has furthermore cancelled recruitment for Civil Decide (Junior Division -2023), Assistant Conservator of Forest (2024), Forest Fluctuate Officer (2024), Assistant Public Prosecutor (Backlog -2025), Jharkhand Blended Civil Suppliers Examination (2026) and Jharkhand Blended Civil Suppliers Examination (Backlog 2023). The recruitment of Meals Security Officer (2023), Little one Progress Endeavor Officer (2023) and Blended Civil Suppliers Examination has furthermore been cancelled.
Out of six, the recruitment examination work that has been been postponed until additional uncover consists of Boiler Inspector (2025) and Inspector of Factories. These handed over for CID probe embrace fifth Blended Civil Suppliers (2013), Civil Decide (Junior Division-2015), Soil Conservation Officer (2015) and Meals Security Officer (2016).
The State Authorities, after a Cupboard assembly on Monday (August 17, 2026), announced the cancellation of the JSSC-Combined Graduate Level (CGL) examination, thought-about one in every of many key requires of protesting school school college students, together with all examinations carried out by outsourced agency TDPL and the outcomes revealed by it.
Printed – August 19, 2026 01:16 am IST
