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Over 10,000 jobs in Health Dept
By Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI, April 29 ? State Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmah today informed that more than 10,000 more jobs are coming up for recruitment in the Health department in the near future. The Minister further divulged that recruitment for as many as 300 Health department posts would be done within the next month, besides, an overall 1,000 number of State Government posts.
?The rest of the posts under the Health department would be filled in a phased manner,? he stated.
The Minister further informed that he had met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi this morning stressing for the need of a special strategy for Barak Valley.
?I have seen that the pass percentage of the candidates applying for various posts is very low. In the recently held examination for the recruitment of surveillance workers too, the number of candidates who appeared for the examination and also the percentage of successful candidates is very low,? he divulged.
?We would try to tackle this problem in a different way. May be, printing the question papers in Bengali could be answer as most of the students in the Barak Valley are more verse with reading and writing in Bengali, especially in places like Hailakandi,? he pointed out.
Replying to a query, the Minister informed that the Health department is planning to adopt an unconventional strategy to tackle the outbreak of diarrhoea in districts like Jorhat and Golaghat.
Regarding the reported anomalies in the recruitment of youths for the posts of surveillance workers, the Minister said that all the successful candidates have been called for an interactive session, which has been scheduled for May 3 and anybody wanting to clarify any issue regarding the alleged anomalies can take part in the interaction programme.
Over 10,000 jobs in Health Dept
By Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI, April 29 ? State Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmah today informed that more than 10,000 more jobs are coming up for recruitment in the Health department in the near future. The Minister further divulged that recruitment for as many as 300 Health department posts would be done within the next month, besides, an overall 1,000 number of State Government posts.
?The rest of the posts under the Health department would be filled in a phased manner,? he stated.
The Minister further informed that he had met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi this morning stressing for the need of a special strategy for Barak Valley.
?I have seen that the pass percentage of the candidates applying for various posts is very low. In the recently held examination for the recruitment of surveillance workers too, the number of candidates who appeared for the examination and also the percentage of successful candidates is very low,? he divulged.
?We would try to tackle this problem in a different way. May be, printing the question papers in Bengali could be answer as most of the students in the Barak Valley are more verse with reading and writing in Bengali, especially in places like Hailakandi,? he pointed out.
Replying to a query, the Minister informed that the Health department is planning to adopt an unconventional strategy to tackle the outbreak of diarrhoea in districts like Jorhat and Golaghat.
Regarding the reported anomalies in the recruitment of youths for the posts of surveillance workers, the Minister said that all the successful candidates have been called for an interactive session, which has been scheduled for May 3 and anybody wanting to clarify any issue regarding the alleged anomalies can take part in the interaction programme.