{"id":276361,"date":"2026-01-13T00:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276361"},"modified":"2026-01-13T00:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:40:23","slug":"waiting-list-and-department-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/waiting-list-and-department-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting list and department allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wish to highlight a public concern regarding the junior engineer (JE) recruitment, in view of the pending assistant engineer (AE) civil engineering process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since AE civil recruitment is delayed due to a court case, the commission plans to proceed with the JE exam and maintain a waiting list to avoid vacant posts. While this may prevent vacancies, it raises concerns over fairness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the final JE merit list is out, departmental preferences are frozen. If higher-ranked JEs later leave for AE civil engineering posts, vacancies are filled from the waiting list. This can allow wait-listed candidates to get better departments, such as PWD, while lower-ranked but already selected JEs remain in less preferred departments, with no option for reallocation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the commission continues with the waiting list, it is respectfully requested to also allow limited and transparent reallocation of choice preferences to ensure that merit is not compromised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Aspirant<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor, I wish to highlight a public concern regarding the junior engineer (JE) recruitment, in view of the pending assistant engineer (AE) civil engineering process. Since AE civil recruitment is delayed due to a court case, the commission plans to proceed with the JE exam and maintain a waiting list to avoid vacant posts. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276361","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=276361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}