New Delhi, Dec 23 :
Over 71,000 people were given appointment letters on Monday at a Rozgar Mela addressed virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said his government has provided nearly 10 lakh permanent government jobs to youths in the last one or one and a half years.
Addressing recruits at the Rozgar Mela through a virtual event, Modi said never before in the tenure of any previous government, jobs were provided in such a “mission mode”.
“The young population is at the centre of his government’s policies and programmes,” he said, adding honesty and transparency have driven the recruitment process. Noting that a large number of recruits are women, Modi said it is the endeavour of his government that they become self-dependent in every field.
Speaking at the event, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said over 29 per cent of the 71,000 recruited came from the OBC category. The backward classes recruitment has seen a 27 per cent rise under the Modi government compared to the UPA’s, he said. The Schedules Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 15.8 and 9.6 respectively for Monday’s recruitments, Singh added.
A PMO statement said the fresh appointments would provide “meaningful opportunities to the youth for their participation in nation-building and self-empowerment”.
The Rozgar Mela was held at 45 locations across the country. The recruits, selected from across the country will be joining various Ministries/Departments including the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Department of Posts, the Department of Higher Education, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Department of Financial Services, among others.
Earlier this month, the Centre in a reply to a question in Rajya Sabha said the occurrence and filling up of vacant posts is a continuous process and details of vacancies are maintained by the respective ministries or departments.
Ministries or departments of the central government have been directed, from time to time, to fill up the vacant posts in a time-bound manner, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh told Rajya Sabha in a written reply on December 5.
He was responding to a question seeking “details of the total number of vacancies in all central government ministries and departments to date, department-wise”. “Occurrence and filling up of vacant posts in various ministries/departments is a continuous process. The details of vacancies are maintained by the respective ministry/department,” Singh said.
In response to another question, he said the contractual appointments in government departments are made by the individual ministries/departments strictly based on their requirements, by the provisions of General Financial Rules, 2017.
“Vacant posts have been filled up in mission mode, in Rozgar Melas launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 22nd October 2022. 13 Rozgar Melas have been held at central level in 40-45 cities across various states/Union Territories,” the minister said.
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In a separate reply to a question seeking details of the number of recruitment letters pertaining to the central government handed over during Rozgar Melas, he said “several lakhs of appointment letters have been issued during the Rozgar Melas”.
As part of Rozgar Mela, the vacant posts in central government ministries and various organizations of central government are being filled up in a mission mode, he said.
Details of various recruitments and vacancies, including category-wise breakup are maintained by respective ministries/departments/central public sector undertakings (CPSUs) and the concerned recruitment agencies such as Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) etc., Singh said.
