Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), in pursuance of Punjab Government’s flagship program to give jobs to the unemployed youth under ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgar Mission’, has initiated a major recruitment drive to fill 1745 vacancies of different posts.

The move would go a long way to provide reliable, affordable and uninterrupted power to all categories of consumers within the State, said PSPCL chairman-cum-managing director Baldev Singh Sran on Wednesday.

He said that in line with the aforesaid objective, the PSPCL has invited online applications from the eligible candidates as per detailed criteria mentioned at its online application filing portal.

Sran said that an online test would be conducted by outsourced agency for the aforementioned posts, after which the result would be declared and meritorious candidates shall be called for verification of documents.

Subsequent to document checking, the successful candidates will be brought on the selection panel, who would be issued appointment letters, said Sran adding that the selection of candidates would be strictly done as per merit.

To ensure complete transparency and fairness throughout the entire selection process, there would be no interview for these posts, said Sran.

Giving the breakup of the vacancies, the CMD said that 1000 vacancies of the lower division clerks (LDCs), 447 of Junior Engineer (JE) Electrical, 110 of JE civil, 54 of Revenue Accountant, 45 of the Electrical Grade-II, 26 of the Superintendent (Divisional Accounts), 50 of Steno typists, nine of Internal Auditors and four of the Accounts Officer have been advertised.

Elaborating on the recruitment drive, CMD informed that the entire process would be completed between six to eight months.

Outlining the rationale behind this mega recruitment, Sran pointed out that PSPCL would be immensely benefited as this step would bring far more efficiency in its day-to-day functioning.

Besides, it would also be instrumental in enhancing its productivity on one hand and reducing the Transmission and Distribution (T&D) losses.

Notably, the PSPCL has also given jobs to 1035 dependants of deceased employees of PSPCL since March 2017 so far, of which are 824 dependants of Class III and 211 of Class IV in different categories.