Fresh row over Jharkhand govt recruitment, OBC leaders threaten protest

3 min readRanchiJul 28, 2026 06:06 PM IST A fresh controversy has erupted over the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission’s (JSSC) latest assistant teacher recruitment after the vacancy notification revealed zero seats for OBC candidates in the primary teacher category, with their overall share in the recruitment only around 5%, prompting OBC organisations to warn of statewide protests. The category-wise vacancies in the notification show that the 1,909 vacancies for primary teachers (classes 1 to 5) have been distributed among the Unreserved (UR), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) categories, with no seats earmarked for BC-I and BC-II, which together constitute the OBC reservation categories in Jharkhand.The notification for the graduate-traine