{"id":198885,"date":"2022-08-26T01:44:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=198885"},"modified":"2022-08-26T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:14:40","slug":"appsc-ad-for-ados-recruitment-sparks-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/26\/appsc-ad-for-ados-recruitment-sparks-row\/","title":{"rendered":"APPSC ad for ADOs&#8217; recruitment sparks row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 25 Aug:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission&#8217;s (APPSC) recent advertisement for recruitment to eight posts of agriculture development officers (ADO) has sparked a row as agriculture graduates are claiming deprivation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The APPSC advertised eight posts of ADOs on 25 July, specifically mentioning that the applicant should have a BSc agriculture degree from any recognised university accredited by the Indian Council for Agriculture Research (ICAR).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unemployed agriculture graduates are claiming that the new eligibility criterion set by the commission for the ADOs&#8217; posts is an act of &#8220;arbitrarily&#8221; depriving them and disqualifying them from competing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The commission had conducted recruitment for more than 40 ADO posts in 2021, wherein the ICAR eligibility criterion was not made mandatory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The non-ICAR accredited university and college graduate applicants are claiming that there are currently more than 2,000 unemployed agriculture graduates, &#8220;out of which, maximum numbers are from universities and colleges not accredited by the ICAR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The All Arunachal Agriculture Students&#8217; Welfare Association had submitted a representation to the agriculture minister recently, seeking rectification of the eligibility criteria that has kept out thousands of graduates from participating in the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The association also sought temporary suspension of recruitment for the ADO posts. It further sought establishment of an ICAR accredited educational institution in Arunachal Pradesh for agriculture students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seeking the government&#8217;s intervention in the recruitment of other Grade B, C and D posts, the association claimed that the non-ICAR accredited institutes&#8217; graduates are being deprived from taking part in Group B, C and D posts&#8217; interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When contacted, the APPSC said that the advertisement &#8220;was given as per the department recruitment rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are waiting for the clarification from the department,&#8221; said an APPSC official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources in the department said that the matter would be placed in the cabinet on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 25 Aug: The Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission&#8217;s (APPSC) recent advertisement for recruitment to eight posts of agriculture development officers (ADO) has sparked a row as agriculture graduates are claiming deprivation. The APPSC advertised eight posts of ADOs on 25 July, specifically mentioning that the applicant should have a BSc agriculture degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198885","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=198885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}