J-K: All future appointments to be made on contractual basis

In a major shift in its recruitment policy, the Jammu and Kashmir government decided to make all future appointments for gazetted and non-gazetted posts on contractual basis for the first seven years, where after, the appointees will be regularised to be determined by their performance.

The recruitment of doctors, lecturers and teachers would be made at district level from the local human resource and the selected persons shall have to work in the said area during the term of their contractual engagement.

Announcing the decision taken by the cabinet, State Education Minister, Naeem Akhtar announced that the persons appointed on contractual basis under the new recruitment policy would be regularised after putting in 7 years of satisfactory service.

“The decision would help the government to fill the vacancies of assistant surgeons, lecturers and teachers from among the local human resource at the district level and the selected persons shall have to work in the said area during the term of their contractual engagement,” Naeem said.

“This will help the government to cope up with the manpower shortage in these crucial sectors in the remote and far-flung areas of the state,” he added.

The education minister said to facilitate operationalisation of the new recruitment policy at the earliest, Jammu and Kashmir Special Recruitment Ordinance-2015 was approved by the cabinet which would now be submitted to the governor for issuing the Ordinance.

The state is facing a critical problem of educated unemployment with thousands of youth jobless.

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