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New guidelines for recruitment of constables

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NEW DELHI: The government has approved a revised scheme for recruitment of constables in the Central Para Military Forces. The new scheme aims at making the recruitment process more objective and maximising the use of technology.

The move comes in the wake of alleged bungling in the recruitment of constables in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), involving high-ranking officials. The scam, unearthed in Patna, is being probed by the CBI.

The application form will now be designed in the Optical Mark Reading (OMR) sheet centrally so that it can be scrutinised through computer.

The physical efficiency test will now be only qualifying in nature and not carry any marks. The written test will consist of OMR-based, objective type multiple-choice questions and the question papers will be set centrally.

Interviews will be discontinued and a website will be opened along with a help line and a complaint line, giving telephone numbers and SMS-based assistance, a spokesman of the Home Ministry said on Sunday.

Taking cognizance of the reported irregularities in the recruitment process, the Ministry has decided that 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 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.

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