Cabinet nod to hiring 798 domain experts in Punjab Police

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, July 15

The Punjab Police will hire as many as 798 civilians as domain experts in IT/digital, legal forensics and finance to give a cutting edge to its investigations.

Posts for sportspersons

Sports Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi hailed the Cabinet’s move to allow recruitment of international and national-level medal winners on group A and B posts. This has become possible following an amendment to The Punjab Recruitment of Sportsmen Rules, 1988.

The approval to hire the civilian support staff was granted in today’s Cabinet meeting. The Cabinet also approved restructuring of the Punjab Bureau of Investigation that was set up in 2015. As part of the move, the bureau would recruit 4,251 personnel across different ranks and positions, while abolishing 4,849 existing posts so that there is no additional financial burden on the state exchequer, said a senior government functionary.

As per the provisional plan, the direct recruitment of police officers will be undertaken across ranks. This will bring about a qualitative change in the investigation process. It would also help improve the quality of investigations in NDPS cases.

The fresh recruitments would be done through the Police Recruitment Board, after taking these posts out of the purview of the Subordinate Service Selection Board.

Social media outreach

• The Cabinet approved the budget of Rs7 crore to expand the government’s social media outreach by setting up 15 expert teams on outsourced model
• The Cabinet also approved to slash the sanctioned strength of the Water Resources Department from 24,263 to 15,606. Only 17,499 of the sanctioned posts are filled at present. The plan would help the government save Rs71 crore per annum