RANCHI, Aug. 9 -- The Jharkhand government on Saturday held talks with various student outfits amid the massive agitation over alleged irregularities in the recruitment exams conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC), besides issuing an email ID seeking feedback from stakeholders, even as the protesting aspirants decided that their stir would continue until all their demands are met. The development comes as the protest over the paper leaks entered its 15th day on Saturday. A four-member cabinet ministers' panel first met the faction of protesters led by JLKM leader Devendra Nath Mahto, whose fast over the issue entered its seventh day on Saturday. They then met delegations from the Congress-backed NSUI, Adivasis Chatra Sangh (ACS), and the JMM-backed Jharkhand Chatra Manch (JCM). On Friday night, the government had held similar talks with a 10-member delegation of the JPSC/JSSC Reforms Manch---a groups of JPSC and JSSC aspirants. Late on Saturday, the group of ministers met chief minister Hemant Soren to apprise him of the details of the series of meetings with the student groups. Even though there was no official communication from the government side till the filing of this report, some insiders said that the government decided to meet the 10-member student group that held talks with the ministers on Friday. However, the protesting students offered no confirmation on this; when asked by the HT, they said they were yet to receive the government invitation. "The demands of the protesting aspirants are genuine; we will place these before chief minister Hemant Soren," said state labour minister Sanjay Prasad Yadav, a member of the panel set up by the government, after the back-to-back meetings. The ruling JMM's students' wing Jharkhand Chhatra Morcha (JCM) placed five demands before the government panel, including the cancellation of the 14th Jharkhand PSC Civil Services Examination. The NSUI placed six demands before the government, including a CID probe into all JPSC and JSSC examinations under doubt within 90 days and the setting up of Jharkhand Testing Agency (JTA) on the lines of the National Testing Agency, its spokesperson Sanjiv Shah said. Adivasi Chatra Sangh leader Kartik Oraon said, "We demanded inclusion of tribal and regional languages as qualifying papers in the recruitment examinations, besides the cancellation of the tests in which irregularities were found." State minister Chamra Linda, who is also a part of the panel, said, "This was probably the last meeting with the student bodies, which included members of various tribal groups. They raised two more concerns, including recruitment backlog and conservation of tribal languages." The government panel's first meeting was with the JPSC-JSSC Abhyarthi Manch, the group led by JLKM's Debendranath Mahto, and it lasted around two hours. "The government assured us of a quick decision to resolve the issues raised by us. However, our protests will continue until all our demands, including cancellation of the 14th JPSC exam, are met," a leader of the forum said. State minister Dipika Pandey Singh said after the meeting that the talks occurred in a positive atmosphere and that the recruitment discrepancies explained by students would soon be resolved. Higher and technical education minister Sudivya Kumar Sonu said that the government has issued an email ID, jpsc.jssc.feedback@gmail.com, seeking suggestions from aspirants on reforming the recruitment processes. Speaking to the media after his group's meeting with the ministers, Mahto said that since the students have been protesting peacefully for over two weeks, the state government should fulfil their demands immediately. "They should not procrastinate. How the government responds to the demands will be interesting to see," he added. Meanwhile, the students protesting under the banner of JPSC-JSSC Reforms Manch, who were first invited for dialogue with the ministers on Friday, said that as announced earlier, they are continuing their protest until all their demands are met and at the same time preparing for their Vidhan Sabha Gherao on August 10. "The way this government is handling the protest, it seems it is just delaying decision-making. Even the government knows that irregularities occurred in the JPSC prelims exam. That is why they directed the CID to probe the matter. Then why do they need feedback and discussion with different groups to cancel the 14th JPSC exam? It's clear they are playing tricks. I don't want to reveal our future strategy, but we won't budge. We will force them to accept our demands. And Monday's Vidhan Sabha gherao would send them that message," one of the organisers of the protest at Jaipal Singh Munda stadium said, requesting anonymity....