Bengal to unveil new recruitment processes with policy overhaul

Kolkata: The West Bengal government is set to announce a new recruitment policy aimed at ensuring more transparency in the selection process, people aware of the matter told ET.

In this regard, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has called a meeting with all recruitment boards on June 10 for an overhaul of the state's administrative machinery and a clean-up of the government recruitment process, they said. Next week, Adhikari is set to hold a meeting at Nabanna with the Public Service Commission (PSC) and four other major recruitment boards to finalise the new recruitment policy, the people cited earlier said.

The move comes in the backdrop of a major manpower crunch across several state departments and corruption in the recruitment of School Service Commission (SSC) teachers, both in primary and secondary schools.


With lakhs of vacancies lying unfilled for years, day-to-day administrative operations have been heavily dependent on contractual staff and extension of services for retired personnel, according to sources.

Around 10,000 recruitments in West Bengal Police and 3,000 in Kolkata Police are likely to be undertaken, the sources said. Police stations across the state, it is said, have become dependent on civic volunteers due to the freeze on recruitment under the previous Trinamool government.

Exam Pattern restructuring

The new state government is planning to bring significant changes in the selection process by changing the examination pattern. The previous government in the state, led by the Trinamool Congress, often faced allegations of corruption and cash-for-jobs offers even in Public Service Commission and West Bengal Civil Service recruitments.