LAHORE, July 8: The Punjab government is starting recruitment of 67,427 people in all departments on a contract and regular basis with immediate effect.
This was stated at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Recruitment Policy here on Thursday. Law Minister Raja Basharat chaired the meeting in which all ministers and administrative secretaries were present.
Official sources said the process would be completed during the current financial year. The recruitments would be made in all categories from BPS-1 to BPS-17. The candidates would be given an across-the-board relaxation of five years in the upper age limit irrespective of the fact that any department had made recruitments in the past or not.
The sources said the recruitment should be made against around 75 per cent of the 79,688 vacant posts enlisted by the provincial departments. Most recruitments would be made in the health and education departments, mainly on a contract. Departments like revenue, services and general administration, and information and culture would offer regular jobs.
They said 38,089 vacancies would be filled in the education department and 12,594 in the health department. The vacancies to be filled in other departments are agriculture (1,863), auqaf (475), board of revenue (4,613), communication and works (1,136), cooperative (337), environment (79), excise and taxation (22), finance (334), food (228), forest and wildlife (1,406), home (870), housing (2,155), industries (19), labour (79), law (208) and local government (303).
Around 267 vacancies would be filled in literacy, 289 in livestock, eight in management and professional, 136 in mines, 150 in planning and development, 957 in S&GAD, 395 in social welfare, 94 in special education, 105 in sports, 33 in transport and 14 in zakat.
No decision about the recruitments in the social welfare department was taken, as it could not enlist its vacant posts. The recruitments in the devolved departments would be made by the district recruitment committees and in the non-devolved departments by the provincial committees.
The district committee for recruitment in BPS-11 and above would be headed by the DCO. It would comprise EDO concerned, EDO finance and planning, appointing authority concerned (if the EDO was not the same), one member of the department concerned, and the DO concerned.
The committee for recruitments in BPS-1 to BPS-10 would be headed by EDO concerned. It would comprise EDO finance and planning, DO coordination, appointing authority concerned (if the DO concerned was not competent for the purpose).
The provincial level committee would be headed by the department's appointing authority. Its members would include two of its officers and one officer of the S&GAD's regulation wing as its members.
Meanwhile, an official hand out said the vacancies would be filled in the second phase of the government's recruitment policy. In the first phase, it had filled 20,817, out of 26,652 posts, during the previous financial year.
Raja Basharat directed that the vacancies would be filled in line with the recommended policy of merit and eligibility in a transparent manner. The private sector was playing a vital role in generating jobs for people, he said.
He directed the officials concerned to reconstitute recruitment committees at the district and provincial level and that only the deserving candidates be accommodated. It was decided that the minister in charge would supervise the recruitment process in his respective department and ensure merit at all cost.
