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'Job interviews at lower posts being done away with'
New Delhi, Sep 8
The government has initiated
the process of doing away with the practice of holding interviews for
appointment to junior-level posts, Minister of State for Personnel,
Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space Jitendra Singh said
here on Tuesday.
The Department of Personnel and Training has
initiated an exercise for identifying the posts for which interview for
selection can be discontinued and a communique in this regard has been
sent to various state governments, State Public Service Commissions and
Staff Selection Commissions, Singh said.
He said that this move
follows the suggestion put forward by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
during his Independence Day address to the nation.
A statement
quoted the minister as saying that the government would soon identify
all those posts, particularly at junior levels like Group III and IV,
where an interview is avoidable and would stop this practice.
He
said for a post for which an interview is not necessary to determine the
capability of a candidate, the provision of interview sometimes leads
to scope for manipulation and corruption.
Barring such posts
where an interview would help in testing special capabilities for a
particular assignment, abolition of the provision of interview will not
only be in the larger public interest but would also offer a level
playing field for those candidates who lack resources and/or come from
lower socio-economic strata, he added.