Uttarakhand Public Service Commission chairperson Dr DP Joshi and members of the commission presented the annual report 2011-12 of the commission to Uttarakhand governor Dr Aziz Qureshi.
During interaction Dr Qureshi said that the commission should accelerate its selection procedure and provide the State with excellent public service. He asked the chairperson regarding the 268 vacancies for lecturers in the various colleges of the State to which the chairperson replied that the process of evaluation and selection was underway as per the rules of UGC.
In the annual report was included the complete description of recruitment of people after examinations and interviews and other important activities of the commission. It was also mentioned in the report that this year, applications for various exams like PCS, Ranger ,Civil Judge (junior division) had been invited online. All applications would be invited online now.
According to the report,the commission had so far selected 14,396 candidates through various exams for which about 7.5 lakh people had appeared. Of these 14,396 candidates, 5,525 were recruited directly through interviews, 2,756 through written exams and 6115 through DPC.
In 2011-12, candidates were selected for 1648 posts and recommendations were sent to the Government and 784 of these were selected through exams and interviews. The governor released the second issue of the commissions’ journal, “Medha”. Besides chairman, other members were Dr Manjula Bisht, Prof Manjula Rana, Dr DK Bhatt, NSNegi, CS Bhatt, Exam controller SN Pandey and administrative officer SK Bhatt were present.