Jammu, August 12: State Government is planning to abolish the practice of conducting interviews for recruitments to the non-gazetted posts in order to fast track the selection process. A formal order in this regard is likely to be issuedshortly to ensure that all the vacant posts referred to the recruiting agencies as on date are filled through the new mechanism.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided the said procedure about two years back and he had called upon all the States to immediately avoid practice of interviews on the ground that interviews for junior level posts were leading to corrupt practices and depriving candidates with higher merit in written test of jobs.
Though the majority of the States acted upon the suggestion of the Prime Minister and abolished the interviews for recruitment to non-gazetted posts.
Department of Personnel and Training of Union Government dashed numerous communications to the J&K Government a number of times stressing the need for acting upon the suggestion of Prime Minister.
Official sources told EXCELSIOR that the issue of fast-track recruitment particularly to fill various non-gazetted posts in the Education Department, which has the highest number of vacancies as on date, came up for discussion in a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary B B Vyas few days back.
Sources said that in a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary B B Vyas few days back which was attended by the Secretaries of General Administration, Law and School Education Departments and Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board, it was observed that to fill 3450 posts of Education Department referred to the Services Selection Board around 17250 candidates will have to be interviewed under the prevailing system (five candidates for each post) and this exercise will take several months as such fast-track recruitment will not be possible.
It was decided that the Chief Minister will be apprised about the difficulties in fast-tracking recruitment for non-gazetted posts under the prevailing system and necessity of doing away with interviews.
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