The Assam government will soon roll out advertisements for the recruitment over 22,000 posts. The Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on September 3 announced that 22,000 posts will be advertised within the next two months. The Chief Minister said that the government is in practice to recruit one lakh people for government jobs under the present BJP-led regime.
During an official function, CM Sarma distributed appointment letters to 514 candidates of the previous Assam Direct Recruitment Examination (ADRE) conducted to fill the vacancies of Class III and Class IV posts under various departments. The total number of government jobs offered till date during his tenure stands at 87,402, Sarma said.
"Within a month or two, advertisements for recruitment to fill another 22,000 vacancies will be published. That will take the total number of recruitments to well above the 1-lakh promised earlier," Sarma said. The BJP had promised to provide one lakh government jobs in Assam during the campaigning of the 2021 assembly polls.
Sarma said the decision to offer one lakh jobs to unemployed youths of Assam was ratified by the state cabinet in its very first meeting in 2021, but owing to the second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire process got delayed.
According to Sarma, the state cabinet of Assam approved the resolution to provide one lakh jobs to unemployed youths in the state at its very first meeting in 2021, but the entire procedure was delayed due to the second and third waves of the COVID-19 epidemic.
"The recruitment process was expedited after the spread subsided and by the second anniversary celebrations of the current dispensation in the state, appointment letter distribution to around 86,000 job seekers was completed," he added.
(With PTI Inputs)
