Haryana fixes 12% interview marks for HSSC recruitments

Post of doctor now taken out of the Haryana Staff Selection Commission’s purview

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Cabinet on Saturday decided that weightage of interview marks will not exceed 12% of the total marks in recruitments made by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC).

The decision comes in the wake of chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s oft- repeated stress on the need to have bare minimum interview marks for government recruitments and no interview at all for police recruitments to bring fairness in the process.

The cabinet on Saturday decided that interview marks weightage will be 12% of the total marks and the written exam will have 88% weightage of the total marks for HSSC recruitments. Earlier, interview marks in HSSC recruitments carried a weightage of 20-25% of the total marks.

An official spokesman said that the written exam will be divided into two parts -- 75% comprising general awareness, reasoning, maths, science, English and Hindi and 25% comprising history, current affairs, literature, geography, civics, environment and culture of Haryana.

The cabinet also decided to take the vacant posts of medical officers, out of the purview of Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC). While urgent recruitment was the stated reason for taking these posts out of HPSC purview, the new government seems to be wary of the Commission having members appointed by the previous Congress regime. There are more than 500 vacant posts of medical officers (HCMS-Group A) that need to be filled urgently.

An official spokesperson, however, said that the government had already been doing the recruitment of medical officers (Group B) through departmental high-powered selection committee since 2008. It was necessitated because it was felt that the process of recruitment of doctors through HPSC is very time-consuming. On an average, it takes about one year from requisition to final selection. In the meantime, a lot of doctors who could be available for government health institutions take up appointment elsewhere. The number of applicants turning up for interviews and finally joining the government job after selection dwindles. TECHNICAL COPS TO GET PROMOTION

Providing promotional avenues to Haryana police constables recruited under technical posts, the state cabinet also approved the merger of their posts into the general cadre of police.

However, the posts of operator and technician of the telecommunications wing of the state police will remain excluded from the merger. Officials said the decision will raise promotional avenues of about 1,300 constables holding technical posts such as driver, plumber etc.

The cabinet in a meeting, held here under chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, made an amendment in the Punjab Police Rules (PPR) to allow constables holding technical posts to appear for B-1 test, a written examination conducted by the state police for departmental promotions to the post of head constable. DEAFLYMPICS INCLUDED IN SPORTS POLICY

The cabinet also decided to include Deaflympics in its sports policy to enable Deaflympian medallists to get cash rewards, jobs and other benefits.

The Deaflympics (previously called World Games for the Deaf and International Games for the Deaf) is an event sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wherein deaf athletes compete. AMENDMENT IN REGISTRATION OF BIRTH AND DEATH RULES

The Cabinet also gave its ex-post facto approval to the amendment made in the Haryana Registration of Births and Deaths Rules, 2002. An official spokesperson said the Registrar General of India has directed to make necessary provision for registration of children taken on adoption and to add the name of wife/husband in the death reporting form and death certificate. It has also directed to include the column of unique identification numbers in birth and death reporting forms in the births and deaths registration rules as no such provision is exiting in the present rules. NOD FOR FARIDABAD TO BALLABGARH METRO

The cabinet approved the project for extension of metro from YMCA chowk in Faridabad to Ballabgarh, with the contribution of `569.80 crore by the state government, instead of earlier commitment of `468.20 crore, as per the revised supplementary report. The project cost has been revised from `564 crore to `678 crore due to price escalation and increase in land cost. It would be implemented on the funding pattern adopted in the case of Gurgaon, Faridabad and Bahadurgarh DMRC (Delhi Metro Rail Corporation) metro extensions and to be financed by the Haryana government and the Centre in the ratio of 80:20. The central taxes were also to be financed as subordinate debt by Haryana government and the Centre in the ratio of 20:80. MARTYR’S KIN GIVEN JOB

The cabinet decided to provide a government job to brother of martyr late Lt Satbir Singh, son of Man Singh of village Thua of Alewa tehsil in Jind district. Lt Satbir Singh was killed in a terrorist attack in Manipur on March 18, 2009. He was unmarried. Therefore, his father requested that his younger son Sandeep be given a job on compassionate grounds. Though the case to provide a job to a martyr’s brother was not covered under the government policy of May 2014 the cabinet gave relaxation in rules to provide employment to him, this being an exceptional case