In a bid to arrange doctors and teachers in remote hospitals and schools, the Chief Minsiter convened a meeting with the officials of the Public Service Commission, Uttarkahand in Dehradun on Friday.
The Public Service Commission should expedite the process of recruitment of doctors, PCS officers and inter-college lecturers to fill the large number of vacant posts. Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Harish Rawat made this observation while interacting with Chairman and members of the service commission in the meeting hall at Secretariat on Friday. The CM said that the State is facing shortage of doctors and teachers in the mountainous parts. He also added that many posts of the PCS officers are also lying vacant in the state. The PSC officials told the CM about the problems they are facing.
The CM assured the commission officials that the state government would provide necessary resources and budget for speedy conduction of various recruitment examinations. Rawat assured that a competent officer would be appointed to oversee the process of amendments in the service rules so that the appointment process is not lingered for long. He ordered that for disposal of pending cases of PSC a meeting of commission and Chief Secretary would be convened at an interval of every two months.
The chairman of PSC, D P Joshi expressed his gratitude toward the CM for accepting the proposal of changed in structural set up of commission and increasing the allowances of subject specialists called up for the interviews. He informed that a PSC is implementing new syllabus for preliminary and main examination on lines of UPSC. The Chairman assured that the process of recruitment of doctors and lecturers would soon be completed. The meeting was attended by Members of commission Manjula Rana, MC Upreti, Sumer Chand, Chayya Shukla, Sanjay Sharma, Principal Secretary Radha Raturi and Secretary Chief Minister Md Shahid.