Collector assures 100 % transparency in recruitment

Anantapur: District Collector S Sathyanarayana has assured of justice to all meritorious candidates and job seekers in Village Secretariats. He said there would be 100 per cent transparency in filling up posts in Village Secretariarts and ruled out any scope for anybody to influence the selection procedure.

Addressing a press conference at the Revenue Bhavan here on Tuesday, Sathyanarayana revealed that the certificates verification process will continue until September 27, after which appointment letters will be issued to facilitate the selected candidates to join duties on October 2, the day when all Village Secretariats would come into operation throughout the State.

If people have reservations about the selection process concerning appointments in any category, they would be referred to the government. There are 13 categories of posts in the Village Secretariats. In the district there are 896 Village Secretariats and 631 gram panchayats which have own buildings.

In all there are 8,545 in the Village Secretariats. Various posts category-wise are: Panchayat secretary grade 5 - 571 posts, panchayat secretary grade 6- 896, VRO grade-2 384, ANM-MPH-104, veterinary assistants-805, village fishery assistants-19, horticulture 453, agriculture assistants 282, sericulture assistants 159, Women police and Women and child welfare assistants 1,217, engineering assistants 896, village surveyors grade-2 896 and Education assistants 896.

Replying to queries, Collector Sathyanarayana said that all measures were being taken to prevent outbreak of diseases by taking measures such as chlorination of water tanks, food inspections in hotels and prevention of purchase of stale meat and fish by hotels etc.

He expressed happiness at the good amount of rainfall received by the district. Replying to a question on response to government campaign of millets as alternative crop to groundnut in the district, he said that the millets campaign is picking up and the acreage is increasing year by year.

He said that efforts should be made for ensuring remunerative price to millets farmers. He said that the government was launching a State-wide campaign and offering incentives for expanding the area of cultivation of millets.Joint Collector Dilly Rao, ZP Chief Executive Officer Shobha Rani and other district officials were present.