# Chhattisgarh police aspirants protest for 4th day over vacant posts 2026-08-25T03:56:12+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Candidates protesting over vacant posts in the Chhattisgarh Police recruitment drive continued their agitation for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, camping outside the residence of State Home Minister Vijay Sharma in Kawardha. The candidates are demanding that 1,940 vacant posts among the 5,967 advertised for the District Reserve Police Force be filled and a second selection list be released. According to one of the protesting candidates, RTI documents show that 4,367 posts have been filled so far through the initial selection and waiting list. The vacancies arose because the same candidates were selected in multiple districts, with some names appearing in eight or nine district lists, as well as on the waiting list. The protesters said they have worked five to six years preparing for this recruitment and will not leave until the second list is released. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The core issue is a flawed selection process where a single candidate can be selected for multiple districts, inflating initial counts and leaving posts unfilled when each candidate joins only one post. This is not a new problem in large-scale centralised recruitments in India. Under the Chhattisgarh Police recruitment rules, the selection committee has the authority to revise the merit list or issue a supplementary list. The government's failure to do so, despite being aware of the duplication, has now turned into a public protest. The next key signal is whether the Home Minister's office will concede to a second list or whether the matter escalates to the Chhattisgarh High Court, which has previously intervened in similar police recruitment disputes. ## Coverage - republicworld.com Straight news agency style reporting with direct quotes from protesters, no editorial comment. This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Chhattisgarh, Chhattisgarh police, Kawardha, Vijay Sharma Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/chhattisgarh-police-aspirants-protest-for-4th-day-over-vacant-posts/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/chhattisgarh-police-aspirants-protest-for-4th-day-over-vacant-posts/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/