Inaugurate Workshop on discontinuation of Interview for recruitment to the Junior-level posts in the Government
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Dated:13-November, 2015
Dr.
Jitendra Singh to inaugurate Workshop on discontinuation of Interview
for recruitment to the Junior-level posts in the Government
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 will inaugurate a one-day
Workshop of the Principal Secretaries of the General Administration
Department (GAD) of various States/Union Territories looking after the
work of recruitment of employees, in New Delhi on Monday, November 16,
2015.
The daylong Workshop will focus upon the Central
Government’s directions calling for discontinuation of Interview for
recruitment to the Junior-level posts in the Government. Presentations
will be made by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Railway
Recruitment Boards (RRBs), representatives of State Government from
Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Punjab,
Rajasthan, Sikkim and Uttarakhand besides the Department of Personnel
& Training (DoPT).
Dr. Jitendra Singh had last month appealed
to the Chief Ministers of all the States to take steps to abolish
interview for recruitment to lower posts wherever possible. 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 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 a letter
addressed to the Chief Ministers last month, Dr. Jitendra Singh had
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 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
