Editor,

I would like to appeal to the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) to strictly uphold the notified 1:3 interview ratio for shortlisting the final candidate to be called for the assistant professor interview, as per its own Advertisement No 01/2026, vide Notification No PSC-R (B)/01/2025, dated 22 January, 2026.

The APPSC is widely respected for conducting transparent and merit-based recruitments. In its assistant professor recruitment advertisement dated 22 January, the commission clearly stated that candidates would be shortlisted for interviews in the ratio of 1:3 against the advertised vacancies.

As the interview stage approaches, aspirants and the academic community expect the APPSC to strictly adhere to this notified criterion. Following the declared ratio will ensure fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity for all the best-qualified candidates. Upholding its own guidelines will strengthen public trust and maintain the credibility of the recruitment process.

Failing to conduct the same interview based on the self-notified 1:3 interview ratio may invite legal consequences, as the same notification may act as full evidence against the authorities concerned themselves. Reminding the APPSC not to repeat the mistakes made by the APU, Pasighat, where the APU in its faculty recruitment notification highlighted that it would strictly adhere to the UGC’s API system/guidelines, but later completely neglected the UGC’s guidelines for the same, due to which hue and cry were made by the deprived candidates but was blatantly unheard by the authorities concerned. The APPSC should not repeat history.

A concerned deprived candidate