Till they come to terms with their age! |
With Jammu and Kashmir Combined Competitive Examination, on December 7, Sunday, a precedent has been set – no more age relaxation in such exams in future. This year has delivered a final verdict, and it will be applied to all exams, no ifs and buts.
Those who could not appear, nothing is going to change for them .Their age was above 32. They could not sit in the PSC exams held on Sunday. Their success would have led them to appear in the mains and then possibly made them JKAS officers in due course of time. Perhaps, they might be regretting why they didn’t prepare in time which could have enabled them to sit in the exams. They became over-age. That is where things collapsed for them.
But, will they really think so and accept the fact about their age. It is very difficult to say, at this moment. They see conspiracy of the system against them. They must have felt that they were best qualified to crack the exams.
All along they must have drawn confidence from the fact that there were precedents of age relaxation in the previous exams. They also believed that the precedents of age relaxation will apply to them too. But things did not go as per their expectations.
More than the merits of the issue of the age relaxation, blamegame traded on social media. There was a contest to pin the blame on the other side. Ultimately, the de-facto authority in the UT of J&K- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha prevailed. Even last minute letter by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to JK PSC chairman did........