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UP: provisional joining before character verification for general posts
UP: provisional joining before character verification for general posts
The Story in Brief
The Uttar Pradesh government has implemented a new recruitment policy for state government jobs that allows selected candidates for general posts to receive a provisional appointment letter before their character and antecedent verification is complete. Principal secretary M. Devaraj announced the decision in Lucknow on Thursday, 29 October. The policy aims to reduce the time taken in the selection process and applies to direct recruitments across government departments, corporations, councils, autonomous bodies, panchayats and local bodies.
For security and sensitive posts, a detailed verification before appointment remains mandatory. District police and local intelligence units must submit their verification reports within 30 days. Police verification will cover the candidate's home district and any district where they have lived for more than one year in the last five years. Candidates involved in serious crimes such as murder, rape, paper leaks, cheating gangs and cyber fraud will be disqualified. A mere FIR does not constitute disqualification, but concealing information will lead to termination of appointment and legal action. Physical presence for verification is not required, it will be based on existing records.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The policy shifts the bottleneck from pre-verification to post-verification, placing the onus of truthful disclosure on the candidate. Candidates cleared for general posts will join weeks or months earlier than before, but those who conceal a serious criminal record face termination and prosecution. The 30-day deadline for police verification reports is the mechanism that will determine whether the speed gain is real or merely procedural. The state’s own district police and intelligence units must now meet that timeline consistently or the provisional joining promise will lose its value.
Source: aajtak.in
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