Chief Minister for shifting to paperless recruitments

Chief Minister for shifting to paperless recruitments
Chief Minister for shifting to paperless recruitments

SRINAGAR: Chief Minister, Ms Mehbooba Mufti today called for shifting to paperless recruitments to ensure time-bound recruitment in a transparent manner.

“We have to make better use of information technology to take the existing system of recruitments to the next level to ensure speed and transparency,” the Chief Minister said while interacting with the visiting members of the Standing Committee of the State Public Service Commissions here today.

Chairman, Union Public Service Commission, Mr Deepak Gupta, Chairman, Himachal Pradesh, Public Service Commission, Mr K S Tomar, who is also the Chairman of the Standing Committee, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Kumar Choudhary and Chairman, Jammu and Kashmir, Public Service Commission, Mr Latief-uz-Zaman Deva were also present.

The Standing Committee members comprised the Chairmen and members of the Public Service Commissions of Assam, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Telangana, Goa and Karnataka were also present on the occasion.

The Chief Minister said that the representatives of J&K Public Service Commission should visit their counterparts in other states for exchange of ideas and replication of good practices in recruitments.

Ms Mehbooba also urged the UPSC chairman to set up a coaching centre for the Civil Services aspirants in Jammu and Kashmir as a large number of students from the state have not only started appearing in this prestigious examination, but are also qualifying it in good numbers. “While one of our youth secured second position this earlier, earlier also one of our boys topped the civil services examination,” she said and added that it is heartening to note that despite all odds, J&K’s young boys and girls are now competing with their counterparts from around the country.

Chairman, Union Public Service Commission, Mr Deepak Gupta, informed the forum that this year the number of applicants from J&K has doubled for the Civil Services examination and more and more students are coming forward to sit in this prestigious examination.

J&KPSC chairman, Mr Latief-uz-Zaman Deva briefed the meeting about various initiatives taken by the State’s Public Service Commission to streamline the recruitment process and make it more effective and transparent.

 

Jammu: A meeting of prominent wrestlers was held at Akhara Diwan Mandir Jammu under the chairmanship of Renowned wrestler and  firstever NIS Wrestling coach of the state Choudhary Prem Nath in order to organise a seminar on the theme Wrestling : its promotion , Identification of barriers in the game and their solutions.
Choudhary Prem Nath,main Organiser who is also the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Indian Style Wrestling Association , having mastery over producing number of meritorious wrestlers of the state viz. Bodh Raj first ever gold medalist from all India School Boys wrestling championship in 1976 ,Balkaar Singh National Silver medalist, Mohd Billa, National Silver madalist,Kulbeer Singh,Allah Mai and many more, disclosed that wrestling had its existence in our state but  now its glory is in the declining phase and urgent attention is required to cope with the prevailing issue for which prominent wrestlers, organisers of mega wrestling events across the state,members of all functional akharas in the state,members of various wrestling Associations functional in the state,promoters of Wrestling game are being invited at Ramleela Hall Diwan Mandir Kachi Chawni Jammu on 12th of june 2016(sunday) at 10 am sharp so that proceedings of the seminar may be carried out for better results.Interested participants may contact on mobile numbers 9419141734, 8803174126.Prominent among others present on the occassion includes Bodh Raj, Raj Kumar,Swaran Lal Anand,Partap Singh Kairoo,Thakur  Rajinder Singh,Allah Mai, Kewal Krishan and Dr Dubey.