Govt may bring all posts under TSPSC

transparency in RECRUITMENT

• CM KCR wants to place all the posts under the purview of TSPSC
• Officials keen to replicate Kerala model
• Move seen to checkmate union and union leaders

Hyderabad: The Telangana government is mulling over bringing all the posts in the State government under the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC). If the government has its way, the recruitments like school assistant posts in the school education department, sub-inspectors in police department, civil surgeons in medical and health services, excise inspectors, Group IV services (district posts), immunologists in medical department, Gramodaya officers and 11 other posts would be under a single entity.

All these posts were withdrawn from the purview of the Commission in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh government According to sources, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is keen to get all the posts under the Commission and directed the officials to work on the same. The officials of TSPSC, who had studied the Kerala Public Service Commission suggested to the government to replicate the same model of recruitment in the State. A formal letter to the government from the Commission would be sent soon, they said.

As per the Article 321 of the Indian constitution, the Union government and States can give additional functions to the Union Public Service Commission and State Public Service Commission respectively with the enactment of an Act by Parliament or by the legislature. The additional functions include recruiting for the corporations and other boards, sources stated. Accordingly the government is working to bring in new legislation to vest powers to conduct all recruitments in commission.

“Every government job that draws money from the state exchequer should be recruited by the Commission. However, to benefit certain section of the people in the erstwhile AP state several posts were withdrawn from the Commission,” sources said. Presently, electricity, police department, RTC, Singareni Collieries etc have different separate recruitments. In the police department, officers of the DCP rank recruitment is being done by the Commission, but constables and sub-inspectors posts are being filled through police department.

Even in the case of the school teachers’ recruitment, it is being done through the DSC which does not come under purview of the Commission. The move by both the government and Commission would checkmate the unions and union leaders who have strong say in the recruitments. “The board has to bow to the pressure exerted by the union leaders to give away jobs to their candidates. Failing which they won’t hesitate to go on strike on some trivial issue,” said a government official.

The Commission felt that in the wake of formation of new state of Telangana, there was need to overhaul the existing system of recruitment. It also felt that system has to be streamlined so that burden on the candidates would be less. “In Kerala all the posts right from sweepers to Group posts, it is done through the Commission. The Kerala government has abolished employment exchanges in the State and every year, it issues notifications for 30,000 posts in the State,” sources said.

By Yuvraj Akula