Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Oct 7: As a prompt follow up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion during his Independence Day address to abolish interview for appointments or recruitment to such posts where it is not required, 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 written individual DO letters to the Chief Ministers of all the States requesting them to take a lead in their respective States to carry forward this initiative.
Speaking on the Modi Government’s initiatives at a felicitation function, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Government’s view is that 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 objective selection in a transparent manner and substantially ease the problems of the poor and resourceless aspirants, he said. This will not only enable giving more weightage to the merit but also supplement the Government’s resolve for “Maximum Governance, Minimum Government”,he added.
In his letter addressed to the Chief Ministers, DoPT Minister 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 Chief Ministers of different States have also been requested to involve the Public Service Commission and other recruiting agencies in their respective States to identify posts for which 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 letter states.
It may be recalled that in the last 16 months, the Department Of Personnel & Training (DoPT) and the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (AR&PG) and Pensions has taken several path breaking decisions including abolition of attestation of certificates and instead introduce self-attestation of certificates, introduction of pension portal to abolish the requirement for a life-certificate and decision to revisit and revise the pattern and syllabus of IAS/ Civil Services Examination.
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