New Delhi: In a significant step, the Centre is all set to review the steps taken by states to implement one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s key initiatives of discontinuation of interviews for reruitment at junior level posts, as well as their response to the CBI's repeated requests of nominating officials willing to join the premier investigating agency on deputation basis as it is facing an acute shortage of staff.
Considering the fact that the CBI is currently investigating some high profile cases like the Vyapam scam and ponzi scam, it urgently requires personnel ranging from constables, to inspectors to superintendent of police (SP) so that investigations don't suffer due to lack of personnel and can be fast tracked, sources privy to the development said.
Recently the Government had also sanctioned 598 new posts for CBI for investigation into Vyapam scam cases and chit fund or Ponzi scam cases. However, these posts have not been filled up so far.
According to highly placed sources, Minister for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension Jitendra Singh will hold a meeting with all the principal secretaries (personnel department) on April 22 to seek their responses on these key issues.
Mr Modi in his Independence Day speech last year had called for discontinuation of the practice of holding interviews for recruitment for such junior level posts where personality assessment is not an absolutely necessary requirement.
