Usually, the offer to join a Government job is valid for a limited period. The concerned appointing authority may sometimes indicate even the last date of joining too. If the person to whom the Government job has been offered, does not join the service within the period allowed, if any, the concerned authority may offer the same job to the next candidate in the waiting list, if any; or such authority may advertise the vacancy afresh and conduct a fresh recruitment.
Therefore, generally speaking, there are little chances that the post which was offered to you is still lying vacant and nobody was given this post after you declined to join it.
However, if the post is at a remote location, sometimes such posts keep lying vacant if nobody is willing to join there.
Therefore, what I would suggest is that you should contact the concerned department / authority, and inform them that you are willing to join at this stage in the same post even at the remote location. If it is possible due to the post being vacant, and also if the rules permit it, the authority may perhaps allow you to join the post.
You can also check the relevant recruitment rules / joining rules of the concerned department to see if there is any provision in these rules which can help you in such situation.
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