Chhattisgarh: Cabinet recommends CBI probe into PSC scam'

Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government has recommended a CBI probe into the alleged state public service commission (PSC) recruitment scam of 2021.

The state cabinet which met here under the chairmanship of chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai late on Monday evening recommended a probe into the alleged scam by CBI, an official spokesman said here.

The decision to go for a CBI probe into the scam was made by the government following allegations of large scale irregularities in the recruitments in the class two jobs.

Several candidates who had appeared for the state civil service exam-2021, conducted by the state PSC, made the allegations.

Demand for a CBI probe into the alleged scam was made by the candidates after it was found that relatives of some top level officers of state government and Congress leaders had made into the list of successful candidates recruited in the posts of deputy collector and deputy superintendent of police.

A petition on the issue filed by BJP leader Nankiram Kanwar was currently being heard in the Chhattisgarh high court.

The Chhattisgarh PSC had conducted the state civil service exam for 170 government posts in 2021. As many as 2,565 candidates cleared the preliminary exam, held in February 2021. Total 509 candidates were declared successful in the mains, held in May 2022.

A merit list of 170 successful candidates was announced by PSC in the later part of 2022.

BJP had made it a major poll plank in the November 2023 Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh.