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Date for next CSS exams still undecided
ISLAMABAD, Jan 8: The Establishment Division is in a state of indecision to set a date
for the start of the next written examinations for Central Superior Service
(CSS) candidates.
The Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) has sought
dates from the Establishment Division to conduct the annual examinations to
choose officers for Grade 17 from amongst the candidates, an official told The
News.
Establishment Secretary Tariq Ali Bokhari and Additional Secretary
Sheikh Nasirul Haq did not bother to return the phone calls of this
correspondent, which were made to know the reason as to why the Establishment
Division is sitting over the FPSC request for fixing a date for
examination.
The official said the FPSC was not so independent that it
could decide about the date for the written tests on its own.
With the
confusion prevailing about the start of the examination, thousands of
candidates, who are preparing for the test for months, gripped by
uncertainty.
"First, we heard the examination will be conducted in March
2007. Now, we have known that the test has been delayed but no date has been
fixed," Uzma Hameed, one of the candidates, told this correspondent.
The
FPSC official said the written papers were unlikely in March. He was unsure
whether the examination would be held in April and said it could be even delayed
as all depends on the date to be fixed by the Establishment Division. He said
that the FPSC would also need some time to prepare the logistics for the
countrywide operation, in which a huge number of candidates take
part.
Former FPSC chairman Lt Gen (Retd) Jamshaid Gulzar Kiyani, who was
unceremoniously shown the door, had worked hard to minimize the period between
the conduct of examination, announcement of results and holding of viva from the
maximum of 13-18 months. He had endeavoured to ensure that all the activities
related to the annual examination-its conduct, declaration of results, viva and
allocation of occupational groups to the successful candidates-should come to a
close in the same year to save a lot of time of the contenders.
The
official said that the last CSS written examination was held in May-June 2006.
The oral test has been considerably delayed for reasons best known to the FPSC
with the successful candidates being irked constantly. "The viva is now
underway," the official said.
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