The State Government has decided complete recruitment for 50,000 new posts in various departments in the current financial year.
Presiding over a high-level review meeting at the State Secretariat here on Saturday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik directed the concerned authorities to expedite the recruitment process. Stating that he would review the status of recruitment every two months, Patnaik asked the Chief Secretary to have a monthly review meeting on this.
The Chief Minister also asked the Chief Secretary to keep in touch with the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to expedite recruitment for the vacant posts in the Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) cadre.
It was stated at review meeting that the State Government has begun the recruitment process for 60,937 vacant and newly-created posts, of which 10,000 have already been filled up and that steps have been taken to fill up the remaining posts by the end of the current fiscal.
Recruitment would be made for various posts in the School and Mass Education, SC and ST Development, Home, Health and Family Welfare, Panchayati Raj, Water Resources, Agriculture, Energy, Works and Women and Child Development Departments.
Among others, Chief Secretary GC Pati, Development Commissioner AP Padhi, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, UN Behera, Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of the concerned departments were present at the meeting.