Ranchi, Dec. 15: The Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) has failed to declare the results of as many as five important competitive examinations conducted over the last two years.

Results of the high school teachers’ recruitment exam, judicial service exam, exams to recruit JPSC assistants and co-operative officers and the third civil services (main) examination are awaited.

Collectively, these examinations hold the key to 8,000 government jobs for educated youths of the state, many of whom are unemployed.

The only examinations that the recruiting body managed to conduct and declare the results of during the same period were the medical officers’ recruitment examination, fishery extension supervisors’ examinations and primary teachers’ recruitment examinations.

Collectively, these examinations gave government jobs to around 1,900 youths. While 8,000 vacancies existed for primary schoolteachers, the JPSC managed to select only 800 candidates for the posts. The recruitment drive also selected 900 doctors, who were handed over appointment letters by Governor K. Sankaranarayanan on the morning the Election Commission of India declared the dates for Assembly elections in Jharkhand, on October 19.

While the original deadline for the judicial service examination, which would entail appointment of civil judges, junior division, was December 2009, the high school teachers' examination results were supposed to have been declared on November 15. The deadline for the civil services (main) examination results, October 2009, was also not kept.

“We could not meet the original deadlines examinations due to various reasons,” said Dilip Prasad, chairman of JPSC. “In the next two-three days, we will hold meetings and try to fix new deadlines for the declaration of results of each of these examinations.”

For the last three months, the smooth running of routine affairs in JPSC has been affected by quarrels between the secretary of the body Shivshankar Tiwary and other members. Tiwary is learnt to have shot off a letter to the government complaining about various irregularities in the body. This rift recently took a toll on the declaration of results of high school teachers' recruitment examination, which the state government had wanted on November 15.

Though Prasad claimed that the recruiting body would fix new deadlines for declaring pending results of the examinations, the going is not expected to be easy.

Unemployed youths, the future of many of whom depend on the results, continue to suffer in the meantime.

“I am frustrated. I do not know what to do. Whether to continue to hope for the result or to give up on the idea and start looking for some jobs in the private sector,” said Pradeep Tirkey, who took the third civil services (main) examinations in November last year.

Prasad said some of the papers of the civil services (main) examinations are yet to be evaluated.