5-member committee to ensure fair recruitment

The state government has set up a five-member committee to ensure fast and fair appointment of the next of kin of an employee, who if expires during his or her period of service, in group-C post in the state Public Works Department (PWD).

According to a memorandum issued by the PWD, it has been observed that the entire process of taking examination for the job including setting up the question papers, invigilation and checking of the answer sheets was being supervised by one officer.

This has come to the notice after senior officers had gone through a number of files related to the appointment of candidates in Group-C posts under die-in-harness category. Thus earlier, a three-member committee was formed to process the appointments on compassionate grounds in group-C posts.

Despite forming this committee the purpose was not served as again the correct process had not been followed reportedly.

As a result, the state government has decided to set up a five-member recruitment committee. The committee comprises the engineer-in-chief of PWD, Joint Secretary of the Personnel Department, Joint Secretary (Projects and Co-ordination), Joint Secretary (Works) and Assistant Chief Engineer (Monitoring).

Engineer-in-chief is the chairman of the committee with the Joint Secretary (works) being the member-convener with three others as members of the committee.

In an attempt to ensure that the entire process of recruitment is fairly conducted, the committee will be supervising the entire process of the examination including the computer skills tests.

The committee will be dividing the task of preparing question papers, invigilation, checking of answer papers among concerned persons in such a way that "the entire process of recruitment get expedited and at the same time it is done in a fair and transparent manner."

According to an officer of the state PWD, the committee set up will help to complete the entire process at the earliest.