Yogi sets target for UP recruitment boards: 10,000 jobs in 100 days

“The chief minister directed officials to explore the use of technology for conducting competitive examinations to ensure transparency and reduce the incidents of paper leak to almost nil,” Director (Information) Shishir Singh, who was also in the meeting, told The Indian Express.

With allegations of the recruitment process extending for months and sometimes years, Adityanath also directed the selection board chairpersons to ensure that recruitment related to a particular financial year or session is completed in that session itself.

With incidents of paper leak casting uncertainty over the examinations, the chief minister also told the chairpersons to select those agencies for conducting examinations that do not have a “tainted past”.

He also directed officers to ensure that reservation norms are followed in the selection process.

In his previous term, the BJP government had faced allegations of neglecting reservation norms in the selection process – a charge refuted by his government.

Earlier in the day, the chief minister ordered the suspension of Sonbhadra  District Magistrate TK Shibu and Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Pawan Kumar. While Shibu, an IAS officer, was suspended for allegations of corruption against him, Kumar, an IPS officer, was suspended for allegedly failing to control crime in the district, the government said.

“The suspensions have sent several messages. First of all, the government is serious about zero tolerance toward corruption and crime. Failing to tackle them will entail action,” said a senior officer.

Thursday’s decisions are an extension of the chief minister’s recent direction to officials and ministers to set three short-term goals  – first 100 days, six months and 1 year – for the government.

In the first week of his second term, soon after he allocated portfolios to his ministers, Adityanath not only set out goals for his government but also emphasized fixing the accountability of officers and ministers.

On Wednesday, the chief minister had directed his ministers to personally make presentations before the Cabinet instead of allowing officers to do so.

Prior to that, he had set the revenue collection target of Rs 1.5 lakh crore, and directed senior officers to go on field trips and come up with a work plan to stop tax evasion.

“Not just the revenue, all the departments have been given the task to first set their short-term targets,” an official said.