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Recruitments: call to create conducive atmosphere to execute laws

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Viswan wants to entrust the commission with the recruitment in more agencies

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While preparing a recruitment policy and entrusting the Public Service Commission with additional responsibilities, a circumstance for its smooth implementation too should be created, LDF convener Vaikom Viswan has said.

Inaugurating a seminar on the `Need for a recruitment policy' organised by the Kerala PSC Employees Union as part of its 33rd State conference here on Wednesday, Mr.Viswan said there was an increasing demand to entrust the commission with the recruitment in more agencies, but the commission should also have the facilities to execute the additional responsibilities in a satisfactory manner.

While talking about the opposition to new legislation, he cited the Professional Colleges Act as a case in point. The Act to streamline the professional education sector was passed due to the compulsions in the higher education sector and the controversies were unwarranted. While framing a new legislation, a conducive circumstance for its execution too should be created, he said.

Mr.Viswan hinted at the changes in the job market. Permanent and secure jobs were fast becoming a thing of the past. Private sector had its own recruitment norms and now privatisation had also become rampant. Even the need of a Government was being questioned. In the event of framing a new policy, it should have clarity in recruitment in private and public sectors and the thrust should be on social justice, Mr.Viswan said.

Former PSC member and RSP general secretary T. J. Chandrachoodan said that the selection system should be credible and dispassionate. Changes in the reservation norms were imperative for ensuring social justice, he said.

PSC Chairman M. Gangadhara Kurup who was the moderator, said that changes in the service sector were essential. Such changes should be in tune with the changes in society. Formation of a provisional and administrative service and training for employees were needed to increase the efficiency and weed out corruption in civil service, he said.

A policy document prepared by the union said that the commission still did not have the infrastructure facilities to discharge its responsibilities without giving room for complaints.

During the past 50 years, there was a six-fold increase in the number of members, but there was no quantum increase in the strength of employees.

This had affected the functioning of the commission. The document suggested that all vacancies including those which can be anticipated should be reported to the commission on time.

Notification on the reported vacancies should be issued within a month and recruitment should be completed within a year.

The infrastructure facilities of the commission too should be improved to complete the recruitment process in a flawless manner, the document said.

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