North Kashmir Army recruitment faces rule violation allegation

Kashmir Scenario Bureau

160 Inf Bn (TA) (H&H) JAK RIF has started its Recruitment Rally for Soldier (General Duty), Tradesman at Panzgam Garrison from 19 May 2016 to 23 May 2016 in  North Kashmir Kupwara district.

But now the recruitment has turned into bundle of controversies with candidates from Bandipora and Gurez alleging rule violation practices .

According to them some candidates were helped in race and rules flouted . An aspirant from bandipora stated -“Army people helped candidate in race by aiding them to target points and candidates from Bandipora were ignored as the basic qualification for Tradesman which was kept eight class was raised instantly to tenth and even in General duty 45 percentage was demanded.All these things were not mentioned. With this the recruitment process has run in troubled waters .


“i traveled from Bandipora to attend the recruitment rally in Panzgam Kupwara according to the notifications eight pass candidate can be appear in the rally but when i try to enter they told me you are not eligible, i was really disappointed.” said a aspirant.

Kashmir Scenario tried many time to contact Army spokesman but failed to contact the as his cell phone was out of reach.




Malik Sumeed
Malik Sumeed is a Senior Managing Editor of The Kashmir Scenario.