Jammu, Nov 14: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo today chaired a meeting of the General Administration Department (GAD) to take stock of the recruitment process undertaken by the Services Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) referred by different government departments here.
The Chief Secretary impressed upon the Board to make the recruitment process time-bound. He asked for making annual calendars of the recruitment process so that candidates have clear idea about the same and they prepare accordingly without facing any uncertainties.
Dulloo also enjoined upon the indenting departments to refer the vacancies with clear cut recruitment rules and position of vacancies as per the reservation rules and other necessary clarifications.
He stressed upon the indenting departments to clarify the issues regarding experience and technical qualifications pointed out by the board forthwith so that the posts referred to it are advertised without any further delay.
The Chief Secretary further urged the concerned Departments to update their recruitment rules in consultation with the ARI & Trainings Department for the speedy culmination of the selection process. He also advised the Law Department and Board to make the indenting departments well-versed with the rules and formats for making clarification process swift and less cumbersome for them.
On the occasion the Chairperson, JKSSRB, Indu Kanwal Chib besides giving overview of the ongoing recruitment process of the board also detailed out few of the hiccups stalling advertisement of certain vacancies referred by different departments.
She said that the board has sought certain clarifications from indenting departments regarding break-up of posts under horizontal/vertical reservations, availability/updation of recruitment rules(RRs), recognition status of certain outside institutions, competent authority to issue experience certificates and in some cases the mandatory financial concurrence of the posts to be advertised.
Moreover the meeting was apprised that around 3299 posts are available with the Board for advertisement. It was given out that clarifications regarding many of them had been sought from the indenting departments while some are entangled in legal battles in the court of law.
Some of the posts yet to be advertised includes 1336 posts of Home Department, 415 of Health & Medical Education Department, 314 of Jal Shakti, 292 of PDD, 222 of Industries & Commerce, 177 of Public Works (R&B), 185 of Agriculture, 129 of Forest, 73 of Hr Education, 38 of Revenue, 61 of Transport and those of other Departments.
