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| PSC report calls for empowering boards for fair job selection | | | If the 57th Annual report of the Public
Service Commission (PSC) is to be re-
lied on time has come for major change in the employment policy of the state Government with regard to its style of absorbing educated youth in various Government departments without any selection from the PSC.Time has also come for framing new guidelines for the Government vis-à-vis the recruiting agencies and boards.Not only this time has come for reorganizing the Public Service Commission and the Subordinate Services Selection Board so that these recruiting bodies are empowered to have the last word on the selection of candidates for different posts in different Government departments.The way people have been given jobs in different Government departments during the last several years is itself a testimony to the fact that the previous state Governments showed the audacity to function irrespective of the PSC as far as appointing people on various vacant posts.Not only this the previous st ate Governments deliberately delayed fixing the seniority of its officials and employees with the result promotions were either delayed or carried out in a clandestine manner
An official report of J&K's premier recruitment agency-Public Service Commission (PSC)-has charged the state government departments with not adhering to recruitment rules and underestimating powers of the Commission. According to 57th Annual Report of the PSC, the government departments "would not respond to queries raised by the Commission and with the result, the selection and regularization process has been delayed." "The departments delay the process for want of minor clarifications," the report reads. The Commission has impressed upon all departments and their heads to ensure that while referring the posts, all necessary information is furnished. "The practice of government making adhoc and regular appointments in relaxation of rules against direct quota posts still continues. Neither copies of such government orders are endorsed by the Commission nor details of the posts filled are made available to it," the report states. With such a prevailing situation, it has not been possible for the Commission to monitor such appointments. In some cases, adhoc appointees have been regularized or regular appointments made without fulfilling the constitutional requirement of consulting the Commission." The report further reads that majority of promotion cases remain pending for want of issuance of final seniority list, annual performance reports, integrity certificates, recruitment rules and year-wise breakup of vacancies.
Whatever charges have been leveled against the Government by the Public Service Commission do call for a high level probe so that those whole violated the constitutional requirements by bypassing the Public service Commission were penalized.Well scrapping of the appointment of those who have found jobs through direct interference by the ministers and other senior bureaucrats may be quite a tough one which could ruin the career of scores of officials.But in future the Mufi Mohd.Sayeed led Government should lay down st rict rules for providing jobs to the educated youth.If the present Government is not interested in empowering the PSC and other recruitment boards and agencies the Government should amend the constitution so that such recruitment boards,including the PSC,were closed leaving a free field for the ministers and bureaucrats to indulge in loot by appointing their favourites in various Government departments.In addition to this people with known integrity,honesty and calibre need to be inst alled as members and chairmen of these recruitment boards failing which people may lose faith in the impartial selection done by these commissions and boards. |
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