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* PCS officers shortage to be tackled within one year
Chandigarh, Over 121 PCS and allied services officers are all set to get new postings by a transparent process of counselling initiated by Personnel department on April 7.
According to an official spokesman the department has decided to hold counselling process for allocations of various posts to candidates selected in Punjab State Civil Services Combined Competitive Examination-2013 on April 7, 2015. The spokesman said that candidates as per selected merit list notified on the website of the Punjab Public Service Commission regarding the above mentioned result have been told to assemble in the auditorium of Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration, Sector 26, Chandigarh on April 7 at 9.30 am along with their original certificates and documents. Amongst the 121 posts to be filled 23 would be taken in PCS, 10 as DSP, 16 as DSP (Jails), 52 as ETOs, 6 as Tehsildars, 11 BDPOs and 3 as Labour Officers.
The spokesman said that with the filling up of 23 posts, the chronic shortage of PCS officers would be tackled to a great extent. He said that against 288 posts of PCS officers presently they were over 190 on the rolls and 23 would be selected within the list of 2013, whereas the process of recruitment of remaining 66 posts was underway in different stages and expected to be completed within one year. He said that shortage of PCS officers arose as there was no recruitment for nine long years, piling up the shortage with every passing year after 2003 batch. In 2012, 38 PCS officers were selected and 30 were selected in 2014 and 23 would be selected on April 7.
The spokesman said that candidates called for counselling included General Category candidates(71) from merit 1 to 72, Ex-servicemen/LDSM category (72/73) from merit 1 to 2, Sports persons category (75) from merit 1 to 4, Physically Handicapped category (76) merit No.1, Scheduled Castes and other Categories (77) merit 1 to 16, SCESM category (78) merit 1 to 2, SCLDESM category (79) merit 1, Balmiki Mazhabi Sikh category (81) merit 1 to 13, backward class category (85) merit 1 to 17, backward class ESM/LDESM (86-87) merit 1.
The spokesman said that in the event of extreme unavoidable exigency, if any candidate is unable to attend the counselling, he/she should inform about his/her willingness to join the post allocated to him/her during counselling, at the E-mail ID personnelpp3@gmail.com OR through Fax No.0172-2740553. It is made clear that if no information is received before the date of counselling, it will be presumed that he/she is not inclined to join the post being allocated to him/her and the next candidate in the merit list will be considered for that post as per his/her preference.
