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AP govt dispenses with interviews in all job recruitments
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday formally announced to dispense with interviews for all recruitments done through the state public service commission to fill up job vacancies in various government departments
Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday formally announced to dispense with interviews for all recruitments done through the state public service commission to fill up job vacancies in various government departments.
In the order (GO No. 58), chief secretary Adityanath Das on Saturday said the government had taken the decision to dispense with interviews for the recruitments to be done by the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) for all categories of jobs, including for Group-I Services.
Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led state government had recently announced filling up of 10,143 jobs in 2021-22.
The decision was taken with a view to maintaining utmost transparency and ensuring complete trust of competing candidates in the entire selection process. “The order to dispense with interviews is applicable for all the recruitments notified on or after June 26,” the order said.
The chief secretary directed the secretary of APPSC to take necessary action for the implementation of the order.
In 2011, the erstwhile combined Andhra Pradesh government abolished interviews for filling up of various posts, except for Group-1 services (deputy collector and revenue divisional officer posts etc.) and for the posts of executive, where articulation skills and public interface was required.
After the bifurcation, the government for the residuary Andhra Pradesh in 2016 and 2017 re-introduced interview system for filling up a few more top positions in the state government.
“However, at a review meeting conducted to introduce reforms in the job recruitment in October 2019, it was proposed to abolish interviews for recruitment of any posts notified by the APPSC,” the chief secretary said, adding that the government, after careful examination of the proposal, decided to implement it from now.
Andhra University professor S Prasanna Sree welcomed the decision of the state government to do away with the interviews. “It will help candidates from rural background, who, fail to get through interviews despite doing extremely well in the written tests,” she said, adding that communication skills do not matter much if they have administrative skills.
Prasanna Sree also said abolition of interviews would also eradicate corruption in recruitments. “It will make the recruitments more transparent and merit-based,” she asserted.
