Earlier questions were raised on recruitment process, now talent gets respect: CM
CM Yogi inaugurates 24th National Conference of State Public Service Commission Chairmen
Earlier nepotism and casteism dominated recruitment process, now appointment is done on merit: CM
Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath said on Saturday that as many as one and a half lakh posts were lying vacant during the previous governments in Uttar Pradesh because the Supreme Court had stayed recruitment over complaints regarding lack of transparency in the recruitment process.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the 24th National Conference of State Public Service Commission Chairmen held at Signature Building, CM Yogi said: “When we took charge of the state in the year 2017, there were a lot of complaints regarding Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission, Subordinate Services Selection Commission, Higher Education Selection Commission and Secondary Education Selection Commission examinations. So much so, that the court’s intervention was sought to stop many recruitments. In some cases, the court had also made serious comments.”
“When we took over, I told the officials to remove whatever deficiencies were there regarding recruitments. Earlier the recruitment process was not transparent. Nepotism and casteism dominated the recruitment process and injustice was done to merit and talent. So, we prepared a team of good honest people to make the recruitment process transparent. In the last 6 years, more than 1.64 lakh posts in the Police Department were filled in a transparent manner”, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath added.
No question raised on a single appointment in last 6 years
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that people need to take all that the administration of Uttar Pradesh has done in the last 6 years to every nook and corner of the country. He said that in an ideal society, be it the Union Public Service Commission or the State Public Service Commissions, all of them have a big role to play.
He remarked further that under the guidance of the Prime Minister, NITI Aayog had taken forward the process of 112 aspirational districts in the country out of which 8 districts were from Uttar Pradesh. The NITI Aayog’s list of top 10 states also includes Uttar Pradesh. CM Yogi said that in the last 6 years, the government has made five and a half lakh appointments without a single question raised on any appointment.
Export value reaches Rs 2 lakh crore in last 6 years
CM, however, added that in the state’s population of 25 crores, five and a half lakh government jobs were not sufficient with many youths reluctant to join the government sector and therefore, the government devised One District One Product programme to promote entrepreneurship under which mapping of 75 districts of the state was done, out of which unique products of 57 districts were given a new identity.
CM Yogi said that the total export of Uttar Pradesh increased from Rs 86000 crores in the year 2017 to about Rs two lakh crores today. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that designing and packaging of the products were also encouraged. People were given training and were linked with banks. Not only this, tool kits are being made available to the artisans of the state through Vishwakarma Shram Samman Yojana.
Industries did not stop running even during lockdown
He said that a lot of investment has come in the state due to better law and order situation. The Global Investors Summit was organized in the state from February 10 to 12, in which investment proposals worth Rs 35 lakh crore were received.
He further informed that said that ground breaking ceremony of projects worth Rs ten lakh crore will also be organized soon. CM Yogi said that during the pandemic, about 40 lakh workers and laborers ciame back to the state from different parts of the country and were absorbed n the 96 lakh MSME units operating in the state by the government.
CM Yogi said that industries continued to run even during the lockdown in the state. As a result of that, employment was created on a large scale in the state.
Senior members of the Union Public Service Commission, Rajeev Nayan Choubey, Lt. Gen. Raj Shukla, Standing Committee of National Conference President George, Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission Chairman Sanjay Shrinet, Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra etc participated in the programme.
