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STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: It must sound music to job seekers that the State government is going to set the recruitment process in motion to fill up vacant posts in its various departments. The Assam government has decided to fill up the vacant third and fourth-grade posts in the offices of various deputy commissioners in the State.
This venture is part of the BJP's poll promise of providing one lakh government jobs in a year. Following a directive from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO), the GAD (General Administration Department) has already compiled statistics of vacant posts in the offices of deputy commissioners in the State.
It has come to light that 266 grade III and 140 grade IV posts have been lying vacant in various DC offices in the State.
The DC office of the Kamrup (M) district has 44 grade III posts vacant. It is followed by the Sonitpur DC office with 42 grade III posts and the Barpeta DC office with 27 grade III posts vacant.
Likewise, 44 grade IV posts have been lying vacant in the Jorhat DC office, 42 in the Sonitpur DC office and 24 in the Kamrup DC office. The recruitment process of all these vacant posts is to begin shortly.
The four offices of the Division Commissioners in the State – North Assam, Barak Valley, Upper Assam and Lower Assam – also have 18 grade III and 11 grade IV posts vacant. Apart from this, Assam Bhawans/Assam Houses in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Vellore and Shillong together have 45 grade III and 35 grade IV posts lying vacant. According to sources, all these posts are set to be filled up shortly.
The GAD is at the helm of affairs of all these offices – right from DC offices to Assam Bhawans/Houses.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma did form a high-level committee with Finance Minister Ajanta Neog as the chairperson to prepare a roadmap for filling up the vacant posts in various departments of the government.