SSC chairman N.K. Raghupathy at the news conference in Guwahati on Saturday. Picture by UB Photos
Guwahati, Nov 27 : The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) is taking a number of steps to get more applications for filling up vacancies in paramilitary forces in the Northeast.
As a first step, the commission is trying to relax the minimum marks required for clearing the written test for youths in the Northeast for examinations conducted by the SSC.
“The commission has moved a proposal to the ministry of home affairs for relaxing the minimum requirement,” SSC chairman N.K. Raghupathy said at a news conference here today. Raghupathy has come to the Northeast with the aim to get more youths from the Northeast to fill up the vacancies. He was in Aizawl yesterday.
The commission is handling the recruitment of constables and riflemen in central police organisations under the ministry of home affairs. There are 11,040 vacancies for the posts in central paramilitary forces this year.
Raghupathy said there would be no diversion of posts of Northeast to other states so that youths of the region get jobs. Citing an instance, he said earlier if posts remained vacant in the Northeast, other states took it. “The ministry of home affairs has made it clear that there would be no diversion of posts,” Raghupathy said. The commission will try and request the ministry to hold the examinations other than in English and Hindi. “I do not know whether this will be cleared as there is a problem of getting good translators and good printing presses,” Raghupathy said.
He said the response from the Northeast is not good, but it is improving. The Northeast regional office of the SSC had handled 295,249 applications in open examinations in 2010-11 as against 643,771 applications received during 2009-10. “While these statistics seem impressive they are not good compared with the all India figures,” Raghupathy said.
He said the commission had decided to distribute free of cost applications forms and instructions for filling up forms in local languages.