Raj govt appoints retired Maj Gen Alok Raj as chairman of RSSB

Jaipur: Rajasthan government has appointed retired army officer Maj Gen Alok Raj as the new chairman of Rajasthan Staff Selection Board.

The Gehlot government issued orders regarding the appointment late on Wednesday night. His tenure will be for 3 years.

The post fell vacant last month after Hariprasad Sharma voluntarily sent resignation to the state government and was accepted.

Notably, questions have been raised on the functioning of the board due to delay in recruitments and paper leaks.
Maj Gen (Ret) Alok Raj, a resident of Banipark in Jaipur, has served in the Indian Army for more than 37 years. He was commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the Sikh Light Infantry in June, 1983. He has also served with the foreign mission in Angola as a UN military observer. After the appointment, he said his first priority will be to conduct the recruitment examination with fairness and transparency. “For this, I will first meet the former chairman and members of the board and will understand the process so that we can live up to the aspirations and expectations of the youth,” he said.