Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted this Tuesday about his “mission mode” to recruit over 10 lakh people for central government jobs before the Modi government again seeks a mandate from the people to come to power.
PM Narendra Modi after reviewing the status of the human resources in all government departments and ministries decided to fill the vacant positions to reduce unemployment for the new mission.
The government’s decision comes as a reply to the questions raised by the opposition upon unemployment since the last two years when Covid hits India, therefore cornering and blaming them for unemployment in the country.
However, the saffron party every time managed to get rid of them by showing their success in neutralizing the criticism with its planks of welfarism and development.
Earlier in April this year, PM Modi at a marathon 4-hour long meeting with all the central government secretaries talked about the recruitment drive and asked them to prioritize the process of filling vacancies on the new mission in various government departments so that opportunities are created.
This decision of Modi regains his importance in the opposition and helps him to win the assembly elections of Uttar Pradesh.
Although BJP’s victory was with a less number of votes, Modi’s direction coupled with the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath who also claimed that far more posts were reserved for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes are lying vacant for years.
The CM of Uttar Pradesh also promised recruitment in his state before the Lok Sabha 2024 elections.
According to the government data tabled in the Rajya Sabha in February, there were 87 lakh vacant posts in the Central government departments as of March 1, 2020. It is also reported a good chunk of vacancies is available in the railways.
In response to a question, in the Rajya Sabha in July last year, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, had informed that there were around 8.72 lakh vacant positions in the central government departments as of March 2020.
The sanctioned strength of all central government departments was 40.05 lakh among which only 31.32 employees were allotted in.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)’s Chief Mayawati on June 14, in response to the tweet, questioned it as an “election mirage”. “The BSP has been demanding both inside and outside Parliament that these vacancies be filled by running a special drive.
The government is silent about it and this section of the society is affected the most by poverty and unemployment,” the BSP chief.
But the BJP ensured that they were reviewing the status of Human Resources in all Departments and Ministries and preparing details of vacancies. Hence the decision on recruitment was taken following an overall review.
As per the Government sources, unemployment still prevailed because of the faulty system of the recruitment body.
c of the Rupee is at an all-time high. Because of this all [people] are feeling worried and restless.
Now, the Center in the next one-and-half years, before the Lok Sabha election, has announced 10 lakh recruitments. Is it not an election mirage ( chhalavaa)?”
Meanwhile, PM Modi will inaugurate the country’s first-ever underground “Gallery of Revolutionaries”, a museum dedicated to the personages of the Indian Independence Movement at the Maharashtra Raj Bhavan today, June 14.
The gallery, themed “Revolution Saga” has come up in the hidden network of 13 pre-World War-I (First WW) British era bunkers, and was discovered in the sprawling Raj Bhavan campus in August 2016 during the tenure of the then Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, said an IANS report.
