Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday that the interview for recruitment in government positions has been abolished in 23 states and eight union territories so far, according to a statement from the Ministry of Personnel. This is a follow-up to the abolition of the interview for Group B (unpublished) and Group C positions in the central government since 2016, Singh added.
It was in 2015, while speaking from the walls of the Red Fort in New Delhi on the occasion of Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had suggested abolishing the interview and making the job selection entirely on the basis of a written test because every time an interview was called. received by a candidate, his entire family would be disturbed with apprehension and anxiety, the minister recalled.
In a quick follow-up to the Prime Minister’s advice, he said, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) undertook a quick exercise and within three months completed the entire process to announce the abolition of the central government recruitment interview with effect from from January. January 1, 2016.
While some states like Maharashtra and Gujarat were quick to implement this rule, there were other states that were quite reluctant to abolish job interviews, he added.
Singh expressed satisfaction that after some persuasion and repeated reminders to certain state governments, today the practice of conducting interviews has been discontinued in all 8 territories of the Union of India, including Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, and in 23 of the 28 states of the country. .
In the past there have been complaints, grievances, and accusations about tampering with interview marks to help certain favored candidates. The abolition of the interview and the consideration only of written test scores as merit for selection, he said, provides a level playing field for all candidates, he added.
Additionally, several states have also reported large savings in the state treasury because quite substantial expense was incurred to conduct candidate interviews, the number of which often ran into the thousands, and the interview process continued for several days together, Singh said.
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