(News) UPSC has lifted the moratorium on UT Administration For Directly Recruiting Engineers

In a significant development, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has lifted the moratorium on UT administration for directly recruiting engineers.

At present, 35 sanctioned posts of engineers are lying vacant, of which 25 are in the engineering department and 10 in the electricity department.

As per norms, 57% recruitment is to be done direct through the UPSC, while 43% of seats are reserved for promotes. The last direct recruitment was done in 2003 when three engineers were hired on the post of assistant engineer (AE). Prior to that recruitment through the UPSC was done in 1991 when three engineers joined as AE.

The UPSC had imposed the ban on direction recruitment of engineers after the UT administration failed to formulate its own service rules, despite repeated reminders. However, after struggling for years the administration earlier this year managed to frame its own service rules which were submitted to the ministry of home affairs (MHA) and were approved.

UT finance secretary VK Singh, who played a key role in framing of rules, said, “The decision will help them in overcoming acute shortage of engineers in different departments.”

In absence of adequate engineers, the departments were forced to hand over additional charge of engineers to junior engineers (JEs), thus affecting the efficiency.

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Courtesy : Hindustan Times