In a major decision to provide employment opportunities to the youth, the Punjab Cabinet on Monday approved recruitment to 26,454 posts lying vacant in various government departments.
A decision to this effect was taken during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann here at CMO this morning.
According to a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office, these posts belong to Group A, B and C. Major departments involved in this process will be Home Affairs, School Education, Health, Power and Technical Education.
The Cabinet also directed the administrative departments to ensure transparent, fair and time-bound recruitment. It has also been decided that interviews would not be conducted for the recruitment for Group-C posts. This decision would go a long way in achieving the goal to provide employment. Besides, this step would also optimise the working of government departments as they will start working with full human resource on hand and provide government jobs to the youth of the state on the other.
In another landmark decision, the Cabinet gave approval regarding amendment in Clause 3(1) of ‘The Punjab State Legislature Members (Pension and Medical Facilities Regulation) Act, 1977’ to give MLAs of Punjab Vidhan Sabha one pension (irrespective of a number of terms served) at the new rate of Rs 60,000 per month plus Dearness Allowance (as applicable to the pensioners of the Punjab Government) instead of the present provision according to which a member is being paid a pension of Rs 15,000 per month plus Dearness Allowance thereon (as admissible to the Punjab Government Pensioners) for the first term and an additional pension of ten thousand rupees plus Dearness Allowance thereon (as admissible to the Punjab Government Pensioners) for every subsequent term. The Punjab government will thus save around Rs 19.53 crore annually after this amendment.
In a bid to give relief to commercial vehicle operators, the Cabinet gave a go ahead to the State Transport Department’s Amnesty Scheme from May 6 to August 5 for collecting the motor vehicle tax from the commercial vehicle fine.