Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) will issue advice memos for the posts of reserve conductors in KSRTC by the end of this month.

PSC Chairman K S Radhakrishnan has said the Commission had completed all formalities for issuing the advice memos to around 9,300 vacancies reported to the PSC by the KSRTC.

However, the KSRTC has approached the PSC informing that it had not got that many vacancies as of now.

According to PSC sources, they have completed the mammoth task of preparing a jumbo short-list of 76,769 candidates within a span of seven months.

A total of 54,421 candidates were included in the reserve conductor rank list. It is the largest rank list in the history of the PSC, which includes 34,909 in the main list and 17,512 candidates in supplementary list. The list came into effect in May 2013. Though the KSRTC reported 9,016 vacancies initially, as per the latest reports, it has been reduced to 3808 vacancies. The PSC received 6,30,449 applications for the examination for reserve conductors which was a record of sorts in the history of the PSCs in the country.

Of this, 4 lakh candidates wrote the OMR examination conducted on May 5 and June 9, 2012. It was after interviewing and verifying the certificates of 76,769 persons shortlisted earlier that the main list was prepared for the post which is having a pay-scale of `5,250-10,900 for which notification was issued on December 31, 2010. Meanwhile, a problem cropped up with the KSRTC writing to the PSC saying that as of now, the Corporation has only 3,808 vacancies. About it, Radhakrishnan said the PSC decision was to issue advice memo to all those vacancies reported to the Commission.

“We have completed all the process to issue the advise memo. If they are facing any new problem, it is their headache,’’ he said, adding that if candidates who receive the advice memo were denied jobs, they could approach the court.

KSRTC Managing Director K G Mohanlal told Express that an arithmetical error cropped up while reporting the vacancies, two years back. Action had been initiated against those who had committed the mistake, he said.

“We have already taken up the issue with the PSC and hope that it would consider the problem favourably,’’ he said. Kerala State Transport Workers Union (INTUC) state secretary B Raghukumar said KSRTC had made miscalculated the vacancies as it included future vacancies anticipated in case more buses were launched.

Source: Express

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