In one of the biggest employment drives, the Centre will recruit over 62,000 men and women constables in the Central paramilitary and other police organisations of the Union Government. The Union Home Ministry has approved the recruitment rally for the purpose. The recruitment exercise that is expected to kick-start soon provides reservation for children of deceased and injured members of the forces.
The candidates will be hired by Central paramilitary forces like CRPF, BSF, ITBP, SSB and CISF besides NIA and SSF. “This is one of the largest recruitment drives that is being held by the Central Government for hiring in paramilitary and other allied forces. The large-scale hiring is being conducted keeping in view an increasing role of these forces and growth in number of battalions sanctioned to these forces in the recent past,” a senior Home Ministry officer said.
The recruitment examination for these vacancies will be conducted by the Staff Selection Commission (SSC). Out of the total 62,390 posts on offer, about 16 per cent or a total of 8,533 are reserved for women candidates.
The most number of vacancies stood in the country’s largest paramilitary — Central Reserve Police Force — at 24,588 followed by Border Security Force at 22,517. A dedicated force of constabulary is also being recruited this time for the premier National Investigation Agency (NIA) which has 86 vacancies.
The SSC will hold a three-tier examination for these posts with the stages being physical tests, written efficiency and medical tests. Candidates, who have passed Class X and are between 18-23 years of age, are eligible. The expected salary for those hired would be around Rs20,200 apart from other salary benefits that the Government extends to all the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs).
“The final recruitments will be done by October this year and it is expected that those hired would be sent for training to the respective forces by early next year,” the officer said. Apart from the two large forces of CRPF and BSF, the Central Industrial Security Force will hire 5,000 personnel, Sashastra Seema Bal has 6,224 vacancies, Indo-Tibetan Border Police at 3,101, Assam Rifles 600 personnel and the Secretariat Security Force has 274 vacancies.