Drop in recruitments in 2016-17 against 2015-16: Govt in RS
NEW DELHI: There was a decrease in job recruitments done by UPSC, SSC and by Railway Recruitment Board in 2016-17 as against that in 2015-16, the government said on Thursday.
A total of 1,00,933 candidates were recommended for government jobs in 2016-17, according to a written reply by Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh in the Rajya Sabha.
Of them, 5,735 were through the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), 68,880 through Staff Selection Commission (SSC) and 26,318 through RRB or Railway Recruitment Cells (RRCS), he said.
A total of 1,11,807 candidates, or 10,874 more, were recommended by these recruitment agencies during 2015-16, according to the minister’s reply.
Of these candidates, the UPSC recommended 6,866, SSC finalised 25,138 and RRB/ RRCS recommended 79,803 candidates, he said.
A total of 1,13,524 people were selected by these organisations-- 8,272 by the UPSC, 58,066 by SSC and 47,186 by RRB/RRCS-- in 2014-15, the minister said.
These figures do not include recruitments made by the state governments, banks, other financial institutions, universities, central public sector enterprises, statutory/ autonomous bodies and directly by the ministries/departments without going through the UPSC/SSC, Singh said. NEW DELHI: The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), the self-regulatory organisation of advertisers in the country, has upheld complaints against 200 misleading advertisements in October, including those of HUL, Dabur India, Uber India, Hindustan Petroleum and Usha International.
The Customer Complaints Council (CCC) of Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) received 319 complaints during the month. It upheld 82 in healthcare category, 75 in education, 11 in personal care, eight to the food and beverages category and 24 from other categories.
The CCC found that the claims of Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) for its lever ayush soap saying ‘based on 5,000-year-old ayurved scriptures with 15 ayurvedic herbs’ besides other claims were inadequately substantiated and are misleading.
Furthermore, the ASCI said that HUL did not submit any evidence that the celebrity is in agreement with the claims being made in the advertisement in general.
Citing the findings, ASCI general secretary Shweta Purandare said, “The visual of the celebrity (Akshay Kumar) when seen in conjunction with the claims are likely to mislead consumers regarding the product efficacy and contravened ASCI’S guidelines for celebrities in advertising.”
Similarly, Dabur India was pulled up for its advertisement of Dabur lal tel which claimed ‘Dugni tezi se sharirik vikas’.
“The claim was valid for babies up to six months of age and there was a discrepancy in the ad as it showed the baby getting up and walking towards the mother indicating the age to be more than six months,” Purandare said, adding that the government must act against companies using misleading advertisement to promote their products as it’s a breach of the trust.
Cab service provided Uber India’s advertisement claim which said ‘save Rs 500 on your next 10 Uber rides and ride Uber and the discount will auto apply’, were found misleading by the ASCI.