Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, together with Cupboard Ministers, addresses the media late at evening and confirms the choice to cancel the JPSC and JSSC examination papers at Venture Constructing, in Ranchi, on August 17, 2026.
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The Jharkhand Authorities on Tuesday evening (August 18, 2026) launched an inventory of 44 recruitment exams which were cancelled as a result of irregularities, amid scholar protests over the problem.
Issuing eight notifications late at evening, the Jharkhand Authorities stated the cancelled exams embrace these performed by the Jharkhand Public Service Fee (JPSC) and outsourced company TSR Knowledge Processing Personal Restricted (TDPL) since 2014.
The cancelled exams embrace recruitment for drug inspectors, assistant professors, deputy collectors, dental medical doctors, assistant engineers, civil judges, further public prosecutors and forest vary officers, amongst others.
Among the many different main examinations cancelled are recruitment for lecturers in authorities polytechnics, senior scientific officers, assistant conservators of forest, and different administrative and technical posts.
The notifications stated {that a} request will likely be made to the Excessive Court docket to represent a fast-track court docket for listening to of circumstances associated to the irregularities in JPSC-JSSC, apart from the structure of an inner vigilance cell in JPSC-JSSC.
Additionally, the committee constituted for reforms in JPSC-JSSC beneath senior IAS officer Amitabh Kaushal will submit its report back to the federal government in two months’ time.
The State Authorities, after a cupboard assembly on Monday (August 17, 2026), announced the cancellation of the JSSC-Combined Graduate Level (CGL) examination, one of many key calls for of protesting college students, in addition to all examinations performed by outsourced company TDPL and the outcomes revealed by it.
Printed – August 19, 2026 01:16 am IST
