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SAVE OPEN MERIT!

STOP CRUSHING OPEN MERIT IN J&K The Open Merit Students Association (OMSA) – J&K strongly condemns the ongoing discrimination and exclusion faced by merit-based candidates in the latest recruitment processes across the Union Territory. In the recruitment for Civil Judge (Junior Division), only 17 out of 42 posts have been marked for Open Merit (OM). Even these 17 are open to all categories, making them effectively non-exclusive for OM candidates. In the recent recruitment notification from Cluster University of Kashmir, all 6 posts were allotted to reserved categories and none for OM. This is a direct denial of fair opportunity to deserving students from the Open Merit pool. This pattern clearly reflects a deliberate sidelining of merit. Such recruitment policies are creating a dangerous precedent where Open Merit youth are being treated as if they have no place in the system they are competing within. Adding to this frustration is the delay in the Sub-Committee report on reservation policy. The committee was given 6 months, but 5 months have already passed. Only one month is left, and there is no sign of the report being released. We raise a simple, logical question: If the report is submitted this late, when will it be implemented? Recruitments are going ahead rapidly. If appointments are made before the report is acted upon, the whole purpose of this committee collapses. We issue the following firm demands: 1. The Sub-Committee must immediately release its full and final report without further delay. 2. All recruitment processes must be paused until the new reservation framework is implemented. 3. The administration must ensure that Open Merit candidates are not further punished for the inefficiency and delay of policy reforms. The Open Merit Students Association will not allow this injustice to go unchallenged. We will continue to raise our voice until merit is given the space and respect it deserves. Issued by OMSA J&K