Uttarakhand : Assembly backdoor recruitment case, investigation committee caught these disturbances
Neither advertisement nor selection committee was formed for jobs in the assembly. There was no exam. Jobs were distributed on personal letters only like Revadi. When the expert committee investigating the backdoor recruitments investigated, the recruitment process kept getting exposed layer by layer. The job was easy for those who reached the assembly. In the report of the inquiry committee it has come to the fore that there was no scale of recruitment in 228 ad-hoc appointments and 22 through sub-panels. Whoever asked for a job by writing a letter citing himself being unemployed, he was given appointment to any post. According to sources, the inquiry committee has also caught the fact that in many posts such youths were given jobs who did not even have the qualification of that post.
The investigation committee caught these disturbances
- The prescribed selection committee for direct recruitment was not constituted. Ad hoc appointments recommended without selection committee
- No advertisement was issued nor any public notice was given for making ad-hoc appointments. Names were not even sought from the employment office
- Applications were not invited from the candidates desirous of making ad-hoc appointments. Instead, whoever applied personally, was appointed on the same
- No competitive examination was conducted for making ad-hoc appointments
- Equal opportunity was not given to all the eligible and interested candidates for ad-hoc recruitments. This has violated Article 14 and Article 16 of the Constitution of India.
The government had imposed a ban in 2003, so how did the recruitment happen?
Assembly Speaker Ritu Khanduri Bhushan told that the inquiry committee has mentioned a mandate in its report. This mandate was issued by the Personnel Department on February 6, 2003, in which the appointments made on ad-hoc, contract, fixed pay, daily wage were banned in various departments.
It was clear in this mandate that no appointment would be made on daily wage, ad-hoc, contractual, fixed pay on any post of category C and category D. There will be a complete ban on these. Despite this, recruitments were made in the assembly from the backdoor.
