{"id":30880,"date":"2018-06-02T01:59:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=30880"},"modified":"2018-06-02T01:59:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:29:01","slug":"assn-demands-increase-in-job-reservation-for-apst-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/06\/02\/assn-demands-increase-in-job-reservation-for-apst-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Assn demands increase in job reservation for APST candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 1:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Pradesh Unemployed Engineers&#8217; Association, (AAPUEA) has demanded that the state government increase the ratio of job reservation for APSTs and non-APSTs to 90:10 from the current 80:20.<br \/>\nStating that there are more than 57,396 registered educated unemployed youths in the state, in addition to thousands of unregistered semiliterate and unskilled persons, the association in a representation to the chief minister appealed to him to look into the demand on priority.<br \/>\nIt also demanded refund of the examination or application fees that were paid to the rural work and UD &amp; housing departments for recruitment to the posts of junior engineer (civil)) and AUPO (civil) during 2016-&#8217;17.<br \/>\nThousands of unemployed engineers, both APST and non-APST, had applied for both the posts and paid Rs 50 and Rs 100, respectively, as examination fees, the association said.<br \/>\n&#8220;But the departmental examinations for recruitment to the posts were cancelled and, later, these posts were transferred to the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC),&#8221; it said.<br \/>\nIt said the APPSC recently floated advertisements for the same vacancies afresh, along with various other posts in various departments.<br \/>\n&#8220;Again, Rs 100 is being charged as examination fee from the candidates, including those who had already paid the examination fees during 2017 for the same posts,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\nThe association demanded exemption of fees from candidates who already paid for the same posts last year.<br \/>\nIt also demanded complete exemption of application or examination fee for APST candidates applying for any government job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 1: The All Arunachal Pradesh Unemployed Engineers&#8217; Association, (AAPUEA) has demanded that the state government increase the ratio of job reservation for APSTs and non-APSTs to 90:10 from the current 80:20. Stating that there are more than 57,396 registered educated unemployed youths in the state, in addition to thousands of unregistered semiliterate and [&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-30880","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\/30880","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=30880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}