JAMMU: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo today chaired a meeting of the General Administration Department (GAD) to take stock of the recruitment process undertaken by the Services Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) referred by different government departments here.

Those who were present includes Principal Secretary, Home; Principal Secretary, PDD; Principal Secretary, School Education; Commissioner Secretary, GAD; Commissioner Secretary, S&T; Commissioner Secretary, Tourism; Secretary, Health; Secretary, Information; Secretary, YS&S; Secretary, Cooperatives; Secretary, ARI & Trainings; Chairperson, SSRB; besides representatives from other concerned Departments.

The Chief Secretary took this occasion to impress upon the Board to make the recruitment process time-bound. He asked for making annual calendars of recruitment process so that candidates have clear idea about the same and they prepare accordingly without facing any uncertainties.

Dulloo also enjoined upon the indenting departments to refer the vacancies with clear cut recruitment rules and position of vacancies as per the reservation rules and other necessary clarifications. He stressed on the indenting departments to clarify the issues regarding experience and technical qualifications pointed out by the board forthwith so that the posts referred to it are advertised without any further delay.

The Chief Secretary further urged the concerned Departments to update their recruitment rules in consultation with the ARI & Trainings Department for the speedy culmination of the selection process. He also advised the Law Department and Board to make the indenting departments well-versed with the rules and formats for making clarification process swift and less cumbersome for them.

On the occasion the Chairperson, JKSSRB, Indu Kanwal Chib besides giving overview of the ongoing recruitment process of the board also detailed out few of the hiccups stalling advertisement of certain vacancies referred by different departments.

She made out that the board has sought certain clarifications from indenting departments regarding break-up of posts under horizontal/vertical reservations, availability/updation of recruitment rules(RRs), recognition status of certain outside institutions, competent authority to issue experience certificates and in some cases the mandatory financial concurrence of the posts to be advertised.

It was given out that many of the posts are fit for advertisement and would be notified shortly and those against whom the clarifications had been sought would also be filled once the same are received by the board.

It was revealed that since 2019 the board had made 22,624 selections and is in a process of finalizing selections for another 874 posts. Besides it was added that the competitive examination for 4921 posts is going to be held in coming weeks.

Moreover the meeting was apprised that around 3299 posts are available with the Board for advertisement. It was given out that clarifications regarding many of them had been sought from the indenting departments while some are entangled in legal battles in the court of law.

Some of the posts yet to be advertised includes 1336 posts of Home Department, 415 of Health & Medical Education Department, 314 of Jal Shakti, 292 of PDD, 222 of Industries & Commerce, 177 of Public Works (R&B), 185 of Agriculture, 129 of Forest, 73 of Hr Education, 38 of Revenue, 61 of Transport and those of other Departments.

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A brilliant mind who studied at Netarhat Residential School and graduated in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur before earning his PhD from the University of Maryland, Dr. Ranjan chose to return to India and dedicate his life to teaching, research and social good.

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