PS BALI
The transfer of Mohammad Ashraf Bukhari, Secretary and controller J&K Public Service Commission (JKPSC) in the recent met State Cabinet, under the chairmanship of Omar Abdullah has raised many questions and speculations about his replacement.
When the government is mooting over the replacement, the aspirants of various examinations under Commission are arguing over the competence of new controller.
The replacement of Bukhari is the ‘hot bread’ among the Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS) aspirants, especially on various Social Networking Sites and Blogs, where the long streak of comments following the question about his replacement is visible.
Many comments read “we will miss MA Bukhari, not because who he was, but for what he has done for Commission.”
However, arguments also heated up over the appointment of new controller. Social networking sites, especially Twitter and Facebook are flooded with arguments regarding new controller.
“At the time of joining of Bukhari, commission was obsolete without much to do, but under his control, JKPSC conducted CCE for three consecutive years, besides other examinations with satisfactory results”, commented aspirants. Followed “now the new controller has to further the system without much hassles, but we wish he aspires to make JKPSC functioning smoother.”
According to official sources, government is mooting over the new controller of JKPSC and many competent people have been located, but the final name is yet to be decided.
MA Bukhari, who served in JKPSC as a secretary and controller for more than two years, brought revolutions in the commission by making Combined Competitive Examination (CCE), besides departmental examinations a regular feature, aspirants reminded.
Since his appointment as Secretary and Controller of JKPSC, the commission has smoothly and successfully convened many coveted examinations of the state.
At the time of joining JKPSC, the commission was not in ‘Good Books’ of the aspirants, which was challenging for Bukhari, but to make obsolete Commission to run optimistically, Bukhari worked day and night, in which Bukhari succeeded to a great extend and made CCE and other examinations a “talk of the day”, shared aspirants on Twitter.
Bukhari who is now transferred and posted as Secretary to Government, Information Technology and Science &Technology Departments expressed satisfaction and said that it was his job to run commission, but “without assistance and cooperation of other members this milestone of making examinations a regular feature was not possible,” said Bukhari.
