New Delhi: From January 1 next
year, there will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B
non-gazatted posts in central government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
announced today as part of efforts to put an end to the menace of corruption in
jobs.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
today announced, there will be no more interviews for non-gazetted government
posts from January 1 next year.
In his monthly radio programme
‘Mann Ki Baat’, he recalled that he had suggested in his Independence Day
address that the practice of holding interviews for recruitment at lower levels
in governments could be done away with.
“The government has completed the
entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no
requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazatted posts in central
government. It will come into effect from January 1, 2016,” Modi said.
He said the practice was being
abolished since it bred corruption and the poor people were being looted by
‘dalals’.
“People were getting robbed for
getting employment and even when they could not get a job. It often crossed my
mind as to why there was the need for an interview for small jobs.
I have never heard of a
physcologist who can evaluate a person during an interview of one to two
minutes,” Modi said.
He said abolition of the practice
will particularly help the poor who would have to resort to “recommendations”
or fall prey to brokers who made way with their money.
In his Independence Day speech,
Modi had said he had seen youth often looking for ‘sifarish’ (recommendation)
after getting an interview call. “Even poor widows are compelled to look for recommendations
for interview of their children,” he had said then.
Recently, Minister for Personnel
Jitendra Singh had written a letter to all Chief Ministers asking them to
identify such posts which could be exempted from interviews.
“The governments 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,” he had said in his communication to
the CMs
Regards, E.R.Iyer
