* Full PSC soon, SSB to be strengthened
Fayaz Bukhari
Srinagar, July 1: The State Government today announced its new recruitment policy under which initially 7,500 Government jobs will be filled on fast track basis. Under the policy, the process for new recruitments is to be completed within four months and already pending recruitments with the agencies are to be completed in three months.
Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar, announced the implementation of the new recruitment policy, “Fast-track Recruitment in Government Departments” during a press conference here.
The Minister said that under the policy the recruitment against all the vacant posts referred to the recruiting agencies shall have to be completed within four months and the process for already referred posts is to be completed in three months.
Akhtar said that the appointments would be made on regular basis. He, however, said that the new appointees would be, however, paid basic minimum pay (Pay Band+Grade Pay) during the first five years of service.
The Minister said the persons appointed under the new policy shall be entitled to annual increments, dearness allowance, house rent and city compensatory allowance after successful completion of the five years service. “They will be, however, entitled to the benefits under the medical attendance rules and leave rules from the date of their initial appointment”, he added.
Akhtar said the placement in regular scale of pay would be subject to assessment of the performance of the appointee. “The seniority would be fixed taking into account the five years service rendered by the official”, he added.
The Minister said that the new appointees shall have to necessarily serve in their native places for five years in case of general candidates and for seven years in case of appointees from RBA, LoC and LAC categories.
Akhtar said all the fast-track recruitments would be made through existing institutions like Services Selection Board (SSB) and Public Service Commission (PSC).
The Minister said the SSB will be strengthened and each district would be assigned to a member and the Board would be also strengthened by deputing more members to it.
Akhtar said the full Public Service Commission (PSC) with strength of nine members would be also in place shortly. He said that the Government has answered the queries which Governor, NN Vohra had raised.
The Minister said that 1700 posts of College lecturers, 600 School lecturers and 400 doctors have been already sent to PSC and they have not been filled due to absence of full Commission for past several months. He said that besides this KAS and KPS selections are also pending and so is the regularization of KAS and KPS officers selected earlier.
Akhtar said there will be no compromise on the method of recruitment and all procedural formalities like advertisement, written test, interview would be adopted for making selections.
The Minister said it would be obligatory for the recruiting agencies to complete the selection process for the already referred vacancies within three months from the date of issuance of the policy (June 30, 2015) and complete selection process of the posts to be referred to these agencies within a period of four months from the date of such reference.
Akhtar said it shall be also obligatory on all the departments to refer the existing vacancies and also the vacancies that would accrue during the current year to the concerned selection agencies within a period of one month from the date of issuance of this policy.
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