Kanpur: After the announcement of the final results of the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC)-conducted Combined State/Upper Subordinate Services Examination-2020, seven months have passed, but as many as 55 candidates selected are still waiting for their appointment letters.
The candidates were shortlisted for the post of senior lecturers in District Education and Training Institutes (DIETs).
Besides being upset, the selected candidates are also apprehensive about the appointment letters. They apprehend that the appointment letters may be received after elections due to the code of conduct for the forthcoming UP assembly elections.
“It is disheartening and frustrating that even after qualifying the highly competitive exam and getting selected we have not yet got appointment letters and are unable to join the service,” one of the affected candidates was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.
According to the candidates, when the entire selection process has been completed, the appointment letters should be issued immediately to them.
They also pointed out that the state government has issued letters to the selected candidates of several other posts like Women Child Development Officer, Social Welfare Officer, District Employment Officer etc. and they have been duly appointed.
“We have been told that a ceremony is to be held in which the chief minister Yogi Adityanath is to distribute the appointment letters to the selected candidates and as the date of this function has not yet been decided by the state government, the appointment letters are being withheld,” another candidate claimed while wishing to be anonymous.
Meanwhile, UPPSC’s public relations officer Pushkar Srivastava assured that the candidates will get the letters in due course. “The commission has completed all formalities at its end and has sent the list of the 55 selected candidates to the state government which in due course of time will be issuing the appointment letters,” Srivastava was quoted as saying by the national daily.
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