Jharkhand Govt. issues notification cancelling 22 recruitment exams over ‘irregularities’; CID probe for 23 others

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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, along with Cabinet Ministers, addresses the media late at night and confirms the decision to cancel the JPSC and JSSC exam papers at Project Building, in Ranchi, on August 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI

The Jharkhand government on Tuesday night (August 18, 2026) released a list of 44 recruitment exams that have been cancelled due to irregularities, amid students’ protests over the issue.

In the official notification, the State government said that a request will be made to the High Court to constitute a fast-track court for the trial of cases registered regarding irregularities and misconduct in JPSC/JSSC.

Issuing eight notifications late at night, the Jharkhand Government said the cancelled exams include those conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and outsourced agency TSR Data Processing Private Limited (TDPL) since 2014.

The cancelled exams include recruitment for drug inspectors, assistant professors, deputy collectors, dental doctors, assistant engineers, civil judges, additional public prosecutors and forest range officers, among others.

Among the other major examinations cancelled are recruitment for lecturers in government polytechnics, senior scientific officers, assistant conservators of forest, and other administrative and technical posts.

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Also, the committee constituted for reforms in JPSC-JSSC under senior IAS officer Amitabh Kaushal will submit its report to the government in two months’ time.

The State Government, after a cabinet meeting on Monday (August 17, 2026), announced the cancellation of the JSSC-Combined Graduate Level (CGL) examination, one of the key demands of protesting students, as well as all examinations conducted by outsourced agency TDPL and the results published by it.

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