Functioning of the Board

Recruitment and Selection

JKSSB shall finalize the selections after holding such tests or examinations as may be prescribed under rules, or if there are no such rule as the Board may consider necessary. The Board while making selections and allocating candidates to various cadres shall consider the reservations made from time to time for various categories. The Board shall finalize the selection list which shall be equal to the number of vacancies for which requisition was made and recommend it to the concerned appointing authority. The selection list shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date it is sent to the requisition authority. The appointing authority for reasons to be recorded may not accept the select list received from the board and return the same to the Board for reconsideration.
“Provided that no such action shall be taken by the appointing authority without prior approval in writing of the Administrative Department.” The Board shall also draw up waiting list of 50% of the total number of posts advertised, which shall extend to 100% where the number of vacancies is 10 (ten) or less. The waiting list shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date of the original selection list is sent to the requisitioning authority.

Procedure for Referring Vacancies to the Board

The requisitioning authority shall refer the vacancies meant for direct recruitment to the Board in case of Non-Gazetted posts in accordance with the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (reference of vacancies and holding of meetings of Departmental Promotion Committees) Rules, 2005, as amended from time to time, for making selection of candidates for appointment to the posts.
While referring the vacancies to the Board, the requisitioning authority shall adhere to the relevant recruitment rules and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 and the rules made thereunder.

Procedure for Selection

• The Board/Selection Committee shall conduct written test for all the posts advertised in terms of Rule 13 of J&K Civil Services Decentralization & Recruitment Rules, 2010.
• The Board/Selection Committee shall, based on the merit obtained by the candidates in written test conducted in terms of clause (a), prepare a merit list of candidates and on the basis of merit obtained by the candidates in the written test, conduct on oral test which may be restricted to five times the number of posts/vacancies advertised.
• The Board / Selection Committee shall prepare a Select List equal to the number of posts/vacancies for which requisition was made by the requisitioning authority on the basis of aggregate merit obtained by candidates in the written test and the oral test conducted in terms of clauses (a) and (b).
• The Board shall prescribe such proformas, as are required for reference of vacancies by, and for communicating the select lists, to the requisitioning authorities from time to time.
• The respective Selection Committees, while making selections and allocating candidates to various cadres, shall take into account the reservations made from time to time for various categories subject to the provisions of sub-rule (5) of rule 13.
• The select list finalized by the respective Committees shall be equal to the number of vacancies for which requisition was made and recommend it to the requisitioning authority with prior approval of the Board.
• The select list shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date the select list is sent to the requisitioning authority. “Provided that the validity period of one year of the select list of those selectees whose recommendations/selection is kept withheld by the recruiting agency shall be reckoned from the date of release of their recommendation”.
• The appointing authority, for reasons to be recorded, may not accept the select list received from the Board and return the same to the Board for reconsideration by the respective Selection Committee “Provided that no such action shall be taken by the appointing authority without prior approval in writing of the Administrative Department”.
• The concerned Selection Committees of the Board shall also draw up a waiting list of 50% of the total number of posts advertised, which shall extend to 100% where the number of vacancies is 10 (ten) or less. The Selection Committees shall forward the waiting list, through the Board, to the requisitioning authority for consideration against drop-out vacancies. The waiting list shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date the original selection list is sent to the requisitioning authority. The Selection Committees shall not maintain or recommend any select or waiting list for any future vacancy or any vacancy caused on account of resignation by any selectee after appointment “Provided that the validity period of one year of waiting list of those selectees whose recommendation/selection is kept withheld by the recruiting agency shall be reckoned from the date of release of their recommendation”.
• The appointing authority shall restrict the appointments to the extent of referred vacancies only and any violation thereof shall subject the officer concerned to disciplinary proceedings and any appointment in excess of the referred vacancies shall not confer any right on such appointee to hold such post.