Staff Selection Commission to notify over one lakh jobs

In a massive recruitment drive, the Staff Selection Commission will notify more than one lakh jobs in 2013-2014 and expects to complete the process of recruitment by September 2013, according to its Chairman N.K. Raghupathy.

The recruitment process will cover the departments of Income-Tax, Central Excise, Food Corporation of India, AIR and Doordarshan apart from notifying jobs for Central Paramilitary establishments. The notification for vacancies will shortly be issued.

Addressing a press conference here today along with the representatives of Central Industrial Security Force, the Staff Selection Commission Chairman said that next year will see a significant addition over 2012-13 indicated number of 85,000 job vacancies.

“The number could in fact go up further as we expect more vacancies to crop up requiring new recruitment,’’ he said and expressed that State Governments need to play a role in helping the process by reaching out the information to potential candidates in some of the remote parts of the State.