On wait list, Haryana government to absorb over 2,900 Group D candidates

Pradeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 22

The state has asked as many as 2,949 waitlisted Group D candidates to join government service.

The Haryana Service Selection Commission (HSSC) has now allocated departments to Group D candidates, which comprises several posts, including that of peon, beldar, mali and chowkidar. These candidates have been advised to join their respective departments on June 24.

On Monday, HSSC chairman Bharat Bhushan Bharati told The Tribune that the departments were allocated to the candidates keeping in view the vacancies and after intense talks with around 178 government departments.

All these are waitlisted candidates of the biggest recruitment drives in the state’s history, in which the government had recruited 18,216 Group D employees through the HSSC before the 2019 parliamentary and Assembly polls.

While a majority of the selected candidates had joined the service, a substantial number of posts remained vacant on the account of non-joining, unwillingness and resignation by the former ones.

With a view to give candidates their choice postings, the state resorted to reallocation of departments among the selected candidates. However, scores of candidates left the jobs even after the reallocation of departments after joining the service.

This, the sources said, forced the state to absorb the waitlisted candidates in the government service. In fact, the absorption on the vacant posts was the major demand of these candidates in the run-up to the 2019 parliamentary and state Assembly polls.