New Delhi, June 09: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dr Jitendra Singh, who is also Minister Incharge DoPT, on Friday said that “National Rozgar Mela” is a unique concept visualised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has institutionalised the government’s recruitment process.
Briefing the media about the 9-year achievements of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr Jitendra Singh said, “The hallmark of most of the administrative and governance reforms is that these are youth-centric and Rozgar Mela stands apart as a major and bold initiative to provide government jobs to youth in a transparent manner, in addition to creating millions of job opportunities outside the government through various schemes and initiatives like StartUp policy.”
He informed that through Rozgar Mela, the Central government is cooperating with the State governments to distribute 10 lakh appointment letters in mission mode.
Referring to other youth-centric recruitment reforms, the Union Minister said that interviews abolished for Group B Non-Gazetted and lower posts led to more transparency, and that computer-based examinations introduced in place of paper-based exams, and regional languages introduced in SSC exams for various posts led to increased participation of youth for government jobs.
Dwelling on the Administrative Reforms of nine years, Dr Singh said that “Mission Karmayogi” will prove to be a game-changing reform visualised and launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for capacity building with a paradigm shift – “rule-based” approach to “role-based” learning. He also informed that Mission Karmayogi Prarambh, an online module of courses launched to impart initial training to new recruits, apart from iGOT Karmayogi APP launched to provide anywhere, anytime learning.
Dr Singh also underlined that Special Allowance @ Rs 3000 per month to women employees with a disability has been granted for child care with effect from July 1, 2022, which will increase by 25% on an increase of DA by 50%.
Similarly, the families of missing employees covered under NPS can now get a family pension within 6 months of lodging FIR and not wait for seven years after which the employee is considered deemed dead. “Even in cases where the Government servant dies before completing a service of 7 years, family pension shall be payable to the family at the enhanced rate of 50% of last pay for first 10 years and thereafter @ 30% of last pay,” he said.
Speaking about transparency and accountability in governance, Dr Singh said the benchmark for clean and effective government is the robust grievance redressal mechanism. A 10-step CPGRAMS reforms process has been adopted for improving disposal and reducing the timelines which have resulted in weekly disposal rates up to 95 to 100%, he said. Talking about digital transformation, the minister said that e-Office version 7.0 has been adopted in all 75 Ministries/ Departments of the Central Secretariat.
