{"id":17563,"date":"2018-01-28T02:07:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T20:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=17563"},"modified":"2018-01-28T02:07:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T20:37:58","slug":"aspirants-boycott-exam-demand-more-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/01\/28\/aspirants-boycott-exam-demand-more-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspirants boycott exam, demand more posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 27:<\/strong> Protesting against the state government for allegedly failing to address their long-pending demands, aspiring candidates for the post of veterinary doctors, under the aegis of the Arunachal Unemployed Veterinary Doctors&#8217; Association (AUVDA) on Saturday boycotted the recruitment examination for 21 posts of veterinary officers, which was to be conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission.<br \/>\nThe aspiring candidates staged a dharna in front of the Commission&#8217;s gate this morning, holding placards reading &#8216;No job creation, no exam&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe department had created 21 posts of veterinary officers (VO) months ago and submitted them to the Commission for conducting the examination. Reportedly, 71 candidates applied for the 21 posts.<br \/>\n&#8220;We will not sit in the examination hall until our demands are met,&#8221; said an aspiring candidate, and accused successive governments of meting out step-motherly treatment to veterinary graduates.<br \/>\nThe AUVDA has been demanding that the state government create 158 new posts of veterinary officers and offer unconditional relaxation to APST candidates who have attained 40 years of age.<br \/>\nLater, addressing a press conference, AUVDA president Dr Koj Morchi accused the state government of depriving qualified veterinary doctors by refusing to create posts in the department.<br \/>\n&#8220;Since 1986, not a single VO post has been created. Rather, all the VO posts in the department which were vacated through retirement were being filled through promotions,&#8221; Dr Morchi claimed.<br \/>\nThe association said that the current VOs are overburdened with duties because of the absence of sufficient VOs. It argued that revamping the department would be beneficial to the state&#8217;s economic growth in dairy and livestock production.<br \/>\nBlaming the state government for ruining veterinary graduates&#8217; lives by depriving them of job opportunities, the association demanded a unilateral age relaxation for candidates who have attained the age of 40 years, adding that it should be 45 years for APST candidates.<br \/>\nThe association said that other states have already implemented relaxation of the upper age limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jan 27: Protesting against the state government for allegedly failing to address their long-pending demands, aspiring candidates for the post of veterinary doctors, under the aegis of the Arunachal Unemployed Veterinary Doctors&#8217; Association (AUVDA) on Saturday boycotted the recruitment examination for 21 posts of veterinary officers, which was to be conducted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}