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Selections
not based on merit lead to an inefficient machinery
loaded with incompetent persons which ultimately affects
the quality of administration. It has to be realized that
the quality of public life depends upon the quality of
administration and the quality of administration depends
upon the persons constituting the administration. If the
administrative machinery is not efficient, progress
cannot be achieved and the problems cannot be solved
inspite of the earnestness of the men at the helm of
affairs. Undoubtedly the Services play a key role in
maintaining the stability and in achieving a higher and
higher stages of progress. Therefore, all democratic
countries in the world have constituted Public Service
Commissions for recruiting personnel for the services of
the State on the basis of merit. The framers of our
Constitution have made the Public Service Commission a
constitutionally created independent body and have
assigned the function of making recruitments to the
services of the State, exclusively to the Commissions.
The underlying idea behind the constitution of Public
Service Commissions is to ensure that the selections are
made in a truly fair and transparent manner. The persons
who head these institutions are expected to be of
impregnable integrity and would discharge their
constitutional functions in utmost judicious manner,
sparing no room for favouritism and nepotism. With a view
to ensure that they act in an independent manner, the
Chairmen and Members of Commissions have been accorded
autonomous status coupled with certain immunities.
The Public
Service Commissions are now adopting latest techniques by
using tested technology, which do not allow any scope
whatsoever for errors or leakages and the role of human
element has almost become a nullity. In the last of
couple of decades the technological developments
underwent a sea change and the Public Service Commissions
have to adopt themselves to the changed scenario bidding
a farewell to the age old primitive methods of selection.
The Andhra
Pradesh Public Service Commission brought about radical
reforms in the scheme and syllabi for State Civil
Services and other recruitments. In the revised scheme of
examination overall thrust is on General Studies alone
and the pattern of examining the candidates in the
optional subjects will no longer exist, which would avoid
discrimination in awarding marks among various optional
subjects.
Having
successfully test-checked the web based online system of
receiving applications, the Andhra Pradesh Public Service
Commission has switched over to the same in respect of
all its further recruitments. This system is of great
convenience to the candidates as all the relevant
information on Notifications would be made available in
the website and the applications can be filled in and
sent online from any corner of the State and will be
instantaneously received by the Commission. This system
will enable the Commission to expedite the selection
process with high accuracy within a short period
irrespective of the number of applicants.
However, the
menace of corruption continues to haunt me in my
nightmares. Corruption has extended its tentacles in
various spheres of public life notwithstanding the
persistent efforts to curb it. In this context, educating
the unemployed lot on the systems and methodology of
making selections is imperative.
Eversince I
assumed office as Chairman of APPSC in July, 2005, I have
been incessantly impressing upon the candidates that the
systems of the Commission are so foolproof that
selections will be based on merit and merit alone and
that any amount of money will not secure them a job. In
the wake of ever-growing unemployment as against fewer
number of opportunities, it is possible that some of the
candidates may fall prey to allurements of middlemen and
would enrich them, not realising that their own merit has
earned them their livelihood.
I once again
call upon the unemployed youth to realize that there are
no loop line methods for securing employment and that
ultimately their innate abilities alone would prevail.
Dr.
Y.VENKATARAMI REDDY
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