Srinagar, Nov. 5 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Government has replaced the two-decade-old probation and departmental examination rules for newly recruited Junior Scale officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service (JKAS), making all seven examination papers compulsory.

The General Administration Department (GAD), through Notification S.O. 278, has notified the Jammu and Kashmir Combined Competitive Services (Probation and Examination) Rules, 2026, superseding the rules introduced in 2000.

Under the revised framework, probationers will have to qualify all seven papers, each carrying 100 marks, with a minimum of 50 per cent marks required separately in every paper.

The new rules do away with the earlier provision allowing candidate...