The
Hindu: Jammu: Friday, 01 January 2016.
As a part of
its initiative to fast-track recruitments, the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service
Commission (JKPSC) has begun the process for filling up over 1,600 posts of assistant
professors.
The interview
for the posts will begin on 7 January, an official spokesman said.
According to
JKPSC chairman Latief-u-Zaman Deva, 8,500 candidates have applied against 1,652
posts of assistant professors in various disciplines.
He said that
out of 2,852 vacant posts as on 28 July 2015, after the Commission was made
fully functional by the present government, 312 recruitments have been made
till date, with the recruitment process for other posts having already been set
into motion.
He said the
Commission has, during this period, also conducted competitive examinations for
filling up the posts of assistant director (statistics), besides conducting KCS
(Judicial) - 2014 and Combined Competitive (Prelim) Examination.
The
Commission also conducted screening tests for short-listing candidates for
assistant engineer (civil), superintendent of ITI, lecturer of Physical
Education and range officer (soil) with 4,328 candidates appearing in the
tests, he said.
The
Commission has also convened 22 departmental promotion committee (DPC) meetings
since 28 July and cleared 219 officers for promotion/regularisation. A roster
for convening DPC meetings has been notified to fast-track the process of
regularisation/promotion of officers. The Commission has also accorded
concurrence to the proposal for amendment in the recruitment rules submitted by
GAD for Combined Services, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Department
and Transport Department. The Commission has taken various initiatives to streamline
the process of recruitments.
Some of these
initiatives include shifting to Online Application Forms (OLAF), One-Time
Registration (OTR), publication of official key before the declaration of
result, uploading the information on the website, opening of examination
centres in far flung areas, video-recording the interviews and installation of
CCTV cameras.
Under OTR, a
candidate shall be provided with the facility of registering himself with PSC
after passing graduate level examination, the spokesman said.
As and when a
post commensurate with the candidate’s qualification is referred to the
Commission, a system generated SMS and an e-mail shall be sent automatically to
the candidate registered with the Commission intimating him/her that he/she may
like to apply for the referred to post.
This system
shall also provide up-to-date data about unemployed youth in the state and
other eligibility/ availability for various categories of posts.
Under the
initiative of publication of official key before the declaration of result, a
major step towards transparency in the functioning of the Commission, official
key is being published immediately after the conduct of preliminary
examination/screening test and before the declaration of the results.
The
Commission has also started uploading the information on the official website
to reduce the burden of providing information through the RTI Act wherever
possible including the expenditure incurred from out of the Examination
Revolving Fund.
The
Commission has decided to conduct preliminary examinations for Combined
Services in the far flung areas like Doda, Kargil, Leh, Anantnag, Baramulla and
Rajouri to enable the poor students who because of their financial constraints
do not appear in the competitive examinations as the same are at present held
in the centres located in Jammu and Srinagar cities only.
CCTV Cameras
have been installed in the examination halls of the Commission both at Jammu
and Srinagar to monitor the activities of the examinees and also the
supervisory staff to prevent and eliminate use of unfair means. - PTI
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