Education & Career
Archived — This article has been archived. The information may be outdated.
Cancelled Jharkhand exams bring job-loss protests to Ranchi
Times of India··20 Aug
On 19 August 2026, hundreds of youths who lost jobs after Jharkhand cancelled 22 recruitment exams gathered at Project Bhawan in Ranchi. The list included the JSSC Combined Graduate Level 2024 test. Agitators tried to cross barricades and sat on dharna at the secretariat. A second night flashlight march ran from Project Bhawan to Hatia Chowk.
Prism
What It Means For You
- If you joined a Jharkhand post through JSSC-CGL 2024, protesters said about 2,000 appointees were barred from offices after the 22-exam cancellation notice.
- Anyone who resigned a railway or other government job to take this posting is now asking the state to isolate individual fraud instead of dropping the whole list.
- If you were among the students who sat at Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium, that 26-day stir was paused on 19 August with a two-month deadline.
What's Happening
- Chief Minister Hemant Soren's government notified cancellation of 22 exams, including CGL 2024, and put 17 others under CID inquiry.
- Protesters at Project Bhawan, which houses the chief minister and cabinet offices, scuffled with police and forced their way onto the campus before sitting dharna.
- The earlier student manch said the stir had forced the cancellations and the TDPL agency probe, and warned it could restart if issues stayed open.
Why Appointees Say The Courts Had Already Spoken
- In December 2025 the Jharkhand High Court ordered appointment letters for candidates except those under suspicion, and appointees say they joined after that order.
- In January 2026 the Supreme Court rejected a demand to cancel the recruitment, a point the 1,975 selected candidates are now citing.
- Tanmay Mandal said he left a railway train-manager post to become an assistant section officer in the State Information Commission so he could work closer to family in Dhanbad.
all-newstop-storiestrending-now
