SFI-DYFI state-level meeting discusses education policy, paper leaks and irregularities in recruitment examinations
Ranchi: A call was made to strengthen the movement of students and youth against the growing commercialisation, centralisation and communalisation of the education system. A state-level meeting of the Jharkhand state committees of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) was held in Ranchi on Saturday.
Addressing the meeting, former JNU Students’ Union president and SFI All India Joint Secretary Aishe Ghosh said students and youth must unite and intensify their struggle to protect the education system.
Ghosh said commercialisation, centralisation and communalisation had increasingly gained prominence in the country’s education policy since the 1990s. Questioning the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, she alleged that the policy was aimed at opening the education sector to corporate interests.
She also raised concerns over irregularities in the examination system. Referring to the NEET-UG paper leak issue, Ghosh said repeated incidents of question-paper leaks had affected the future of millions of students. She demanded that those responsible for such incidents be held accountable.
Ghosh also criticised the coaching-driven examination system, alleging that NEET had become a major commercial enterprise. She said the intense pressure associated with competitive examinations and the coaching system was adversely affecting students and demanded accountability for incidents linked to examination irregularities.
Addressing the meeting, DYFI Joint Secretary Vikas Jha raised concerns over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC). He said alleged discrepancies in OMR sheets, the arrest of a candidate and the questioning and subsequent arrest of a former JPSC chairman had raised serious questions over the examination process.
Jha said several JPSC and JSSC examinations had remained controversial since the formation of Jharkhand, with allegations of irregularities surfacing repeatedly. He said action had also been taken against officials of the commissions in several cases.
He said that following protests by candidates, students and youth, the state government had cancelled appointments related to the 11th-13th JPSC Civil Services examination, Food Safety Officer posts, JSSC-CGL and CDPO recruitment. However, a stay order from the High Court has created a legal complication, leaving the matter caught in litigation. He urged the state government to take effective legal measures to resolve the issue and provide relief to the candidates.
Jha said the growing anger among the youth over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations was understandable. The SFI appealed to students and young people to maintain patience and unity, stressing that a united movement was essential to make government recruitment examinations free from corruption and irregularities.
SFI state convener Danish Khan, Sonali, Ojaswi Raj, Aman, Shri Charan and Faizan, along with DYFI’s Mohan Mandal, Amit Munda, Faraz Abbas, Naushad and Praja Paswan, besides dozens of students and youth, attended the meeting.
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