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Reservation row in J&K as Open Merit gets 40% quota of finance dept posts
The Morning Standard
|November 27, 2025
‘THE row over reservation policies in Jammu and Kashmir has flared up again after the Finance Department advertised 600 posts of Accounts Assistants, with only 240 of those allocated to the Open Merit (OM) category.
This has upset the youth falling under OM category, leading them to renew their demand for a review of the existing reservation policy in the Union Territory.
This story is from the November 27, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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