Two crore jobs in govt departments vacant: Minister

Chennai:

More than two crore vacancies across various departments of government and public sectors are vacant and plans are on to fill it soon, according to Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions V Narayanasamy.

Speaking after inaugurating the Staff Selection Commission’s (SSC) ‘Question Bank Workshop on English Language and Comprehension’, the minister said  these vacancies are in various sector including banks, public services commission, CBI etc."Over one lakh vacancies would be filled up by SSC this year," he said.

The minister also said that 55 per cent of applications from candidates are through online”We are taking initiatives to make it 100 per cent,” he added. 

Urging the need to bridge the urban-rural divide in the exams, he said taking note of the handicap of people from rural areas, the commission is planning to have trilingual question papers as many candidates from rural areas are not comfortable with English or Hindi language.

“The proposal is under government consideration. I also had a meeting with SSC chairman N K Raghupathy in the department of personnel to fast-track the reform measures initiated by SSC,” he added.

Speaking on the occasion, Raghupathy said that this year Staff Selection commission is expected to handle more than 1.3 crore application. “By the month of August, we have already exceed 53 lakh applicants,” he said. Interestingly, last year SSC handled 65.4 lakh job applications.

The minister also vowed to enhance the manpower to handle such voluminous applications.