Murad directs SPSC to hold competitive exam every year

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) to ensure the holding of a combined competitive examination every year so that the shortage of officers can be met in time.

The CM said this while speaking in a meeting held with a delegation of SPSC members led by its chairman Mohammad Waseem at the CM House on Tuesday. The SPSC chairman briefed the CM and said the SPSC was a constitutional body with the primary task of recruiting competent officers opting for civil bureaucracy for the Sindh government. He added that the SPSC endeavoured to recommend the most suitable candidates through a fair, transparent, and merit-based recruitment process.

The CM was informed that approximately 28 requisitions were received from various departments of the provincial government for the recruitment process against different posts. The SPSC issued eight consolidated advertisements for the Combined Competitive Examination 2023 promptly. Subsequently, more than 30 interview programmes/sessions for different posts under different committees were scheduled simultaneously, and results were announced promptly to complete the recruitment process.

The CM was told that after due diligence, 5,435 appropriate and qualified individuals, including medical officers (male/female) BPS-17, staff nurses BPS-16 division-wise, lecturers BPS-17, and subject specialists BPS-17, municipal officers BPS-17, town officer BPS-16, were recommended to the relevant administrative departments.

The CM instructed the SPSC to establish a computer-based testing laboratory to bring more transparency to the commission and uphold meritocracy. The number of posts recommended by the Sindh Public Service Commission for various departments in 2022 (September 2022 to December 2022), 2023 (January 2023 to December 2023), and 2024 (January 2024 to April 2024) is 9,836.

The SPSC chairman informed the CM that the five major departments served by the commission include the health department with 591 posts, the livestock department with 257 posts, agriculture supply and prices with 127 posts, environment and climate 93 posts, and college education with 83 posts.

To a question, the CM was told that the commission was in the process of filling 9,466 posts, including 2,600 posts of school education, 1,659 college education, 383 of agriculture, 34 works and services, 179 health department, 1,881 ASIs, and 1,300 medical

officers.

Shah directed the commission to select the best teachers for school and college education. The SPSC chairman along with his members presented an annual report to the CM. The delegation members who attended the meeting included Rizwan Memon, Rizwan Ahmad, Malik Ghori, Qazi Shahid Parvaiz, Arif Hanif, Farhat Kamal, Vikram Singh Sodho, Nusrat Mangan, Kalpna Devi, Rabia Salahuddin, Dr Qazi Masood, Muzaffar Leghari, Dr Saeed Mangnejo, and Secretary Nazeer Qureshi.