ADC removed Chairman, members of recruitment board after exam answer keys leaked, police held 2 

The Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) removed recruitment board Chairman and members on Monday, two days after the answer keys of a recruitment examination of the council were leaked hours before the exams, scheduled to be conducted on Sunday.

The politically important TTAADC since April 2021 has been governed by the tribal based Tipra Motha.

The Motha chief Pradyot Kishore Debbarma in his post on the X said : “The recruitment board Chairman and members have been removed and a new board will be set up. For the sake of transparency this is important as there has to be accountability. Police investigation is on and I want to set an example. Examination date should be announced shortly.”

The recruitment board Chairman Data Mohan Jamatia is a former Judge and Tripura’s Ex Law Department Secretary who after retirement was appointed as head of the TTAADC’s 4-member recruitment board.

The TTAADC authority also filed a case with the police over the leakage of answer keys and police so far arrested two persons.

Various organizations including the Tipra Students’ Federation (TSF), the student wing of the TMP, on Monday submitted a memorandum to Tripura governor Indra Sena Reddy Nallu demanding his intervention to probe the case by the CBI.

The answer keys of a recruitment examination of the TTAADC were leaked on Saturday (June 8), leading the authority to postpone the recruitment process just a day before the exams were scheduled to be conducted on Sunday.

TTAADC Chief Executive Member (CEM) Purna Chandra Jamatia said that the council had advertised for recruitment in 110 vacant posts of Sub-Zonal Development Officer (SZDO) and Deputy Principal Officer (DPO) positions in the Council.

Around 26,000 job aspirants are scheduled to sit for the examination in 71 centers across the state on Sunday.

He also said the TTAADC administration would announce the new dates for recruitment examinations after deciding the same in the next 10 days.

The process to recruit for the posts of SZDOs and DPOs was initiated for the first time in 20 years, said Debbarma and appealed to the candidates to cooperate with the TTAADC administration.