Chandigarh, September 3, 2015: The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal Khattar, has said that the present government has not fired any employee from job.
The Chief Minister was replying to a question raised by Mr.Subhash Barala who asked if there was any proposal under consideration of the government to provide jobs on merit to check nepotism in recruitment, during the Question Hour on the second day of monsoon session of Haryana Vidhan Sabha, today.
He said that the state government had pledged to carry out recruitment in a transparent manner by slamming the doors shut on nepotism and regionalism. For this, the Haryana State Selection Commission has been constituted and, in the near future, recruitment would be done for 50,000 posts out of which the process has been initiated for 20,000 posts.
The Chief Minister said that in order to ensure transparency in recruitment, interview would carry only 12 per cent of the total marks. In case of teachers, maximum of eight per cent marks have also been kept for experience. Similarly, preference would be given to physical measurement test in police recruitment. The Staff Selection Commission has started recruitment and the recruitment of first batch of teachers has been completed and joining would be given to them within 15 days.
He clarified that the government has accepted the orders of various courts regarding the irregularities committed in the recruitments made during the tenure of the previous state government.
In reply to a supplementary question raised by Mr Kuldeep Sharma of Congress, the Chief Minister informed the House that employment would be provided to about four lakh youths under the new Enterprises Promotion Policy-2015. An advertisement has been released for recruitment to 761 posts of doctors out of which 389 have been selected, he added. / (SK Vyas, Jalandhar)
Date:
Thursday, September 3, 2015