As part of its digital India initiative, the Centre is planning an ambitious “digital employment exchange” where job seekers can know about vacancies and job opportunities in various Union Ministries and departments through a common online platform.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has held meetings in this regard with all the Ministries and Departments to come up with a framework with details of vacancies,duration and cycle of recruitment announcements, etc.
With this, the Centre is also making attempts to improve the working of Employment Exchanges.
“The job hunt for youngsters will be a one-stop solution. One has to visit regularly the dedicated website to know about the vacancies. There will be an option to register yourself to get updates either on emails or on mobile phones through SMS. The greatest advantage of such a digital initiative would be that there would be no more confusion about dates of exams and interviews clashed which means more opportunity. Earlier in such case one had to either miss a date with either of recruitment vacancies,” said a DoPT official.
The DoPT would be the nodal agency to coordinate and host all the vacancies and recruitment activities closely monitored by the PMO and all other ministries, departments and PSEs its stakeholders.
“This will definitely bring more transparency in
recruitment process and the total number of vacancies
being created by the Government every month,” added the official.
A large volume of recruitments and vacancies are announced by Railway Ministry and its 16 Zones, Agriculture Ministry, Staff Selection Commission (SSC), Defence Ministry, Science and Technology Ministry, Home Ministry, and the
Central Police Organisation, the Postal Department, Income-Tax Department and
various Public Sector Undertakings like NTPC, BHEl, GAIl, Powergrid etc at various intervals.
This means job aspirants, who have to search websites for vacancies and job opportunities, will know about all relevant information on one platform. This will also avoid clashing of dates of written tests and interviews for jobs.
Though there is no clarity in the number of jobs created during the last three years, the Modi Government has made efforts to bring in transparency in recruitment sector with measures like doing away with interviews for some grades.
The Modi Government is trying to add more than two lakh Central employees during the next two years. The Central Government’s staff strength as on March 1, 2015 was 33.05 lakh, which increased to 34.93 lakh in 2016 and 35.23 lakh by March 1, 2017. The figures includes the Railways, which has not added a single worker to its strength of 13,26,437 in the last three years. The figure excludes the Defence forces.
“So far in the review meeting it has come to know that about 70,000 jobs may be created in the revenue, income tax, customs and excise departments cumulatively followed by central paramilitary forces at 48,000,” said another DoPT official.