Punjab Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan on Monday directed the heads of all the departments to expedite the recruitment process to fill up the vacant posts in their respective departments. The directions come days after the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh directed to fill up the vacancies in all the departments at the earliest and provide employment to the youth of the state under the Government’s flagship “Ghar Ghar Rozgar Mission”.
“This will not only further enhance the efficiency of official work and further improve the public delivery services, but the unemployed youth will also get government jobs,” said the Chief Secretary, while chairing a high-level meeting on the state-level employment plan.
She said that as many as 38,552 posts were to be filled in just five departments, including 16,681 in the School Education Department alone, 10,387 in the Home, 3,623 in the Power, 5,834 in the Health and Family Welfare and 2027 posts in the Cooperation Department at different levels.
Mahajan said that though Punjab Government has undertaken large scale recruitments in various departments during the last two years, several vacancies were yet to be filled.m The Chief Secretary was informed that most of the departments have already fulfilled the basic prerequisites for the recruitment and soon thousands of eligible youth of the state would get employment in the government sector.
She said that a large number of recruitments would be made in various departments including School Education, Technical Education, Water Resources, Home, Power, Cooperation, Health, Higher Education, Revenue, and Rural Development.