Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday handed over appointment letters to 4,543 newly selected police sub-inspectors at a function at the Reserve Police Lines in Lucknow, IANS reported on November 6. Nation Press also reported the ceremony, held under the state's 'Mission Rozgar' employment drive. The Chief Minister interacted directly with the recruits and highlighted what he called the transparency of the selection process, asking whether any candidate had needed a political recommendation, faced a demand for money, or seen any attempt to secure a job through influence, and asserting that such practices were no longer possible in present-day Uttar Pradesh.

Source: IANS via Hi India

Yogi said his administration had already completed around 9.5 lakh government recruitments and was close to fulfilling its promise of another one lakh jobs. The recruitment process would not end there, he said, and some appointment letters would be kept pending and distributed when the government returns to power for a third term. 'More than one lakh appointment letters have already been distributed,' he said, adding that recruitment of 25,000 teachers would also be taken forward in the coming period.

CM alleges pre-2017 recruitment was rigged

The Chief Minister said the state's recruitment system had been transformed since 2017, with jobs now awarded on merit rather than through recommendation, discrimination or corruption. He alleged that large-scale irregularities had occurred in recruitments between 2003 and 2017, including cases where applications were submitted by one person while appointment letters were issued to another, and said several such matters were still pending before the courts. He further alleged that government recruitment before 2017 was dominated by what he described as the 'Saifai syndicate'. These are the Chief Minister's allegations about earlier governments, made at the function. He also recalled that when his government took office in 2017, even salary payments were a challenge and police barracks were in a dilapidated state.

Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna congratulated the newly appointed sub-inspectors, saying they had earned an opportunity many aspirants dream of, and stressed that their selection was based on merit and hard work rather than recommendation or favouritism.