Jammu and Kashmir Government has done away with the provision of preparing waiting lists for recruitment in Government services. The administration has repealed the rules mandating recruiting agencies to draw a waiting list for filling dropout vacancies for each job test.

The General Administration Department (GAD) yesterday issued three separate notifications to repeal the rules mandating recruiting agencies like Public Service Commission, the Services Selection Board to prepare a wait list, in addition to select list. Worth mentioning, in addition to the select list, a wait list was prepared by recruiting agencies for the purpose of considering the candidates of the waitlist against “dropout” vacancies.

As per these notifications, the UT Government has done away with rule 7 of Jammu & Kashmir appointment to class IVth  (special recruitment) rules- 2020,  sub-rule (7) of rule 14 of The Jammu & Kashmir Civil Services Decentralisation and Recruitment Rules, 2020 and proviso first to sub-rule(1) of rule 16 the Jammu & Kashmir combined competitive examination rules, 2018.