With Uttar Pradesh facing a severe crisis of manpower in civil police, the Yogi Government is set to start recruitment of 35,000 constables in the first go and proposed changes in the recruitment process. A decision in this regard was taken at a cabinet meeting held in lucknow on Tuesday.
Government spokesman and Power minister Shrikant Sharma said that there were over 1 lakh vacancies of constables in UP Police and the cabinet has approved filling these vacancies in a phased manner. “In the first phase, around 35,000 posts will be filled,” he said.
The government has proposed changes in the recruitment eligibility. For males, the eligible age is between 18 and 22 years while for women it will be betwen 18 and 25 years. Earlier, there was no written test and marking were based on marks obtained in class X and XII besides a physical test of 200 marks.
“Now, written test of 300 marks will be held. Those who qualify will be asked to take the physical test. The candidates need to pass this test only,” Principal Secretary, Home, Arvind Kumar, who was present at the press conference said.
The qualifying criteria have been re-defined. Earlier the male candidate needed to cover 4.8 km in 27 minutes but now the time has been reduced to 25 minutes. For female candidates, the 2.4 km race which earlier used to be covered in 16 minuteswill now have to be covered in 14 minute.
When asked about the much-needed change in the attitude of policemen, Singh said that rge cops will be imparted behavioral training and orientation.