Remaining jobless, in spite of there being vacancies, adds to the misery of unemployed candidates
HYDERABAD: This is about the Combined Competitive Examination 2013 conducted by the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) in April 2015 for recruitment into different departments of the Sindh government. After the announcement of written exam results on March 16, interviews were finally concluded on August 11. Many of the written qualified candidates are with jobs and if they don’t opt for the allocated departments, those allocated seats will go vacant and will be carried over for the next exam, which, according to the ongoing trend, may only be conducted after five to eight years. This situation creates a lot of depression among unemployed candidates as those unallocated seats will go unoccupied despite the fact that there were many other deserving candidates aspiring for those posts.
I urged the Government of Sindh and the SPSC to introduce the system of a waiting list to allocate those vacant seats to the next candidates in line. The exam consumes a lot of energy, time and money of government institutions as well as of the candidates. Remaining jobless, in spite of there being vacancies, adds to the misery of unemployed candidates. It is, therefore, appealed that those seats that go vacant because some qualified candidate already had a good job than the one allocated to them, be allotted to the next candidate on the merit list.
Mansoor Ihsan
Published in The Express Tribune, August 15th, 2016.
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