New Delhi, July 06: The Centre has approved a revised scheme for recruitment of constables in the central Para Military Forces aimed at making the process more objective and maximising the use of technology in recruitment.
It is expected to end corruption within the paramilitary forces. Early this year, the CBI arrested an Inspector General of Police, Pushkar Singh, in Bihar for allegedly running a recruitment scandal which charged bribes from aspirants for the CRPF’s COBRA battalions. Constabulary forms the major component of Central Police Forces. In 2008, about 18,000 constable vacancies were filled in various Central Police Forces.
The application form will now be designed centrally in the OMR sheet so that it can be scrutinized promptly through computer. The Physical Efficiency Test will now be only qualifying in nature and will not carry any marks. The written test will consist of OMR – based objective type multiple-choice questions. The Question papers will be set centrally. Interview will be discontinued. A website will be opened along with a help line and a complaint line, giving telephone numbers and SMS-based assistance.
No officer against whom departmental proceedings for major penalty is pending will be associated with the recruitment process. Similarly, an officer against whom charges of bungling in previous recruitment have been proved will not be associated with the recruitment process for the next five years. No officer belonging to the state in which the recruitment is being done will be a member of any recruitment board for that state. Biometric methods will be used at all stages of recruitment.
–Agencies