No interview for recruitment to lower posts wherever possible
Dr Jitendra Singh writes to Chief Ministers to abolish interview for recruitment
Union Minister of State (Independent
Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO,
Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space,
Dr. Jitendra Singh has appealed the Chief Ministers of all the States to
take steps to abolish interview for recruitment to lower posts wherever
possible. Dr. Jitendra Singh has written to the Chief Ministers
requesting them to lead this initiative in their respective States.
As a prompt follow up to the suggestion
made by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi during his Independence
Day address to abolish interview for recruitment to such posts where it
is not required, the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) took
up the matter with the State Governments of all States on September 4,
2015 following which the matter was discussed with the Secretaries of
General Administration Department (GAD)/Personnel from States during the
two-day workshop held in New Delhi on September 8-9, 2015.
The government’s view is that the
interviews should be discontinued for recruitment to junior level posts
where personality or skill assessment is not absolutely required. The
objective behind abolition of interviews for such posts is that it will
curb corruption, ensure more objective selection in a transparent manner
and substantially ease the problems of the poor and resourceless
aspirants. This will not only enable giving more weightage to the merit
but also supplement the government’s resolve for “Maximum Governance,
Minimum Government”.
In the letter addressed to the Chief
Ministers, the Dr Jitendra Singh has informed that several Group ‘B’
(Non-Gazetted) and Group ‘C’ (Non-Technical) posts in various
Ministries/Departments and other organisations under Central Government
have already been identified where the selections can be made through a
competitive examination without conducting the interview. The letter
further states that the matter was discussed with the Secretaries of
GAD/Personnel from States during the two-day workshop held last month
and some of the States have already initiated this exercise.
The Chief Ministers of different States
have been requested to involve the Public Service Commission and other
recruiting agencies in their respective States where interview can be
discontinued and selection can be done only through examination. This
would be a major step towards achieving the goal of citizen-centric
transparent governance.
The DoPT and the Department of
Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DAR&PG) and the
Department of Pensions and Pensioners Welfare have recently undertaken
several path breaking decisions including abolition of attestation of
certificates and instead introduced self-attestation of certificates,
introduction of pension portal to abolish the requirement for a written
life-certificate and decision to revisit and revise the pattern and
syllabus of Civil Services Examination.
PIB
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