Editor,
As we venture into the new year with positivity and aspirations in our daily endeavours especially among the educated jobless youth of our state, that yearn for a government job, as they endlessly apply for fewer vacant post with zeal and dynamism formulate through books and online medium to attempt cracking the much acclaimed state government jobs to secure a bright future.
But yet one government department has put on the back burner the screening test of some already advertised vacant post that has been advertised for more than 5 years on the pretext of some unfounded ostensible reason.
The aberrant department is the Directorate of Agriculture that wantonly hinders on the screening exam of various posts. Within the ambit of the said department, these vacancies range from ministerial post to Grade B vacant post mostly in the monitoring and establishment branch of the department. However, these vacant posts are occupied by contract and muster roll employees for decades which is invalid and unconstitutional, as all vacant sanctioned posts are to be filled by recommended candidates from mandated recruitment authorities viz MPSC ,DSC etc.
This conduct of the aforementioned department leads to frustration and anxiety among the aspirants candidates of the state that hanker after government jobs which have become saturated over the years. I urge administrative authorities to intervene in this matter and fasten up the screening exam of these vacant posts so that candidates who clear the competitive exam conducted by recruitment authorities are appointed and not off – the -book appointees. The administrative authorities have recently in its official circular prohibited appointment of temporary staff in sanctioned post and vacancy of post should be intimate immediately to mandated recruitment authorities and leave no lacuna of inconsistency of appointments in vacant post. I hope this is followed in letter and spirit by the incumbent department in this matter.
Gabriel Lamin
Ri War
Via e-mail
