State government shifts focus from dole to jobs
Nearly 5 lakh govt posts up for grabs, job fairs to be held across UP
LUCKNOW: With the unemployment allowance scheme having virtually become passé, the Samajwadi Party government has now launched ‘mission employment’ in the state. Nearly five lakh government posts are up for grabs as the state government rolls out what is clearly the biggest recruitment drive ever in the state. A bulk of the posts are in the basic education department and the police. The state government is also holding job fairs.
LUCKNOW: With the unemployment allowance scheme having virtually become passé, the Samajwadi Party government has now launched ‘mission employment’ in the state.
Nearly five lakh government posts are up for grabs as the state government rolls out what is clearly the biggest recruitment drive ever in the state. A bulk of the posts are in the basic education department and the police. The state government is also holding job fairs.
“We will hold job fairs across the state to employ people after identifying their skill sets or requirements. In fact, that is something we have already been doing but the process will be accelerated now,” labour minister Shahid Manzoor told HT.
An estimated 12-lakh plus youth were receiving the state government’s unemployment allowance before it was scrapped and replaced with the mission employment. The unemployment allowance was among the SP’s populist measures, which failed to make an impression in the Lok Sabha polls.
A senior officer said there was a huge shortage of employees at all levels in the government.
“Against the approved strength of nearly 10 lakh plus employees, there are close to 4.97 lakh job vacancies,” the officer said.
On his part, Manzoor said the bulk of vacancies had been created in the education department.
“Apart from nearly 1.7 lakh education department teachers, nearly as many shiksha mitras would be recruited,” the minister added.
To ensure that maximum number of unemployed persons benefited from the government’s recruitment drive, a committee chaired by secretary (basic education) HL Gupta extended the July 15 deadline for making any corrections in the application forms of the recruitment process of 72,825 trainee teachers.
Against 72,825 vacancies, nearly 2.5 lakh applications have been received in this category. There are another 36,000 teachers to be appointed, including 29,000 teachers in basic education and 7,000 in primary education. Teachers will also be recruited for 1,022 new government high schools. The vacancies exist for non-teaching positions as well. Besides, nearly 1.4 lakh recruitments, including those of subinspector, would be made in the police force. In departments like power and minority welfare, the exact requirement is still being assessed.
“In a couple of days, we would have assessed the exact requirement for minority welfare,” Chittaranjan Swaroop, the minister of state for minority welfare, told HT. Recruitments are also being made in other departments like home, social welfare, forests, tourism, technical education, besides others.
In addition, the state government has to appoint 14,027 law officers. This has to be done on the orders of the high court.