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Good news for job seekers
The Union government is planning a \"faceless, paperless and cashless\" experience for government recruitments in the future following a proposal to do away with the practice of candidates meeting government officials from applying for the post till joining the job.
New Delhi: The Union government is planning a "faceless, paperless and cashless" experience for government recruitments in the future following a proposal to do away with the practice of candidates meeting government officials from applying for the post till joining the job.
A group of secretaries of the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) has chalked out a plan making all government vacancies be put up on a common portal and applications will be invited online. Applicants will be allowed to certify their applications with eSign, an online electronic signature service which enables an Aadhaar card holder to digitally sign a document.
This will do away with the need of physically signing application forms and queuing up at offices to submit them. The new system will also allow payment of exam fee online through a universal payment interface. The candidates will be able to upload their certificates into a digital locker, which will allow the government access these documents online.
"Certificates uploaded on digital locker will do. There will be automated processing of the matter there on," an official said. The Centre has already allowed candidates to submit self-attested certificates, moving away from the earlier system that required attestation by gazetted officers.
It may be mentioned here that since January 1, the Centre has also done away with personal interviews for all junior Group B and all Group C and D level posts that form the bulk of government jobs. Under the new system, the provisional appointment letters, again e-signed by government officials, will also be sent online to the selected candidates.
The last stage, of joining the job, has proved to be the most arduous in many cases, since police verification of the candidates takes three-six months. Many candidates have complained that they had to pay bribes to get the process fast-tracked.
This may soon be a thing of the past. The group has proposed that the successful candidates be allowed to join the job immediately on submitting an esigned online self-declaration of having no criminal history. The appointment will be provisional, until the results of a time-bound police verification exercise come in.
