Assam NGO urges CM to ensure transparency during ‘one-lakh job’ drive
The NGO, which is the original petitioner in Supreme Court that led to the update of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam seven years back, has in a memorandum to the chief minister on Tuesday urged the government to ensure that the application process for the vacant posts across the departments by candidates should be completely free of cost.
GUWAHATI:
City-based NGO, Assam Public Works (APW) has urged chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to ensure a transparent and flawless drive to provide jobs to one lakh youths in a year so that the “loopholes” that surfaced during the appointment processes under previous governments are kept at bay.
The NGO, which is the original petitioner in Supreme Court that led to the update of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam seven years back, has in a memorandum to the chief minister on Tuesday urged the government to ensure that the application process for the vacant posts across the departments by candidates should be completely free of cost.
“We have taken note of the government’s efforts to fill up about one lakh vacancies across departments under the state finance minister’s supervision. In this regard, we request you to ensure that no application fee is charged from the job aspirants. Along with it, we urge you to ensure that the interviews/written tests of two or three departments are not held simultaneously and that the entire process is conducted in a technically sound and transparent manner,” APW president, Aabhijeet Sharma stated in the memorandum.
It may be noted that several departments have so far submitted a status of 80,000 vacant posts to the high-power committee led by the state finance minister, constituted to provide jobs to one lakh youths in a year.
A core committee led by the chief secretary was constituted in the second meeting of the high-power committee on Monday.
“Secondly, we urge you to take steps that the job aspirants are appointed on merit and to ensure that organisations given the contract/role of conducting the examinations have a clean background and are not blacklisted in other states,” the APW president stated.
He further urged the chief minister to ensure that the ‘loopholes’ in recruitment processes of the panchayat and rural development department, water resources department and fisheries department that emerged under previous governments or the sub-inspector question paper leak scam were not repeated.
“Lastly, we urge you to constitute a vigilance committee led by high-level officers of Assam Police to independently take decisions while supervising the conduct of the exams and to take the onus of addressing any allegation of corruption that might arise during the recruitment process. Such a committee should ensure that there is no political influence in the appointments and that middlemen are kept at bay. If needed, a Cabinet meeting can decide in this regard and take steps for implementation,” the APW president stated.
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