Providing Jobs on Compasssionate Ground during their service period / on duty for the last 5 years

LOK SABHA 

Providing Jobs on Compassionate Ground

3444. SHRI JAMYANG TSERING NAMGYAL

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Ministry has any data with regard to the deaths of their staff during their service period/on duty and if so, details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;

(b) the number of jobs given to the kins/dependents on compassionate ground in each of the last five years, State/UT-wise; and

(c) the number of cases pending with the Ministry with regard to giving jobs on compassionate ground to the dependents of the deceased staff who died during their service period and the action taken by the Government to resolve these pending cases?

(SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

(a) Yes, Sir. The details of deceased staff of the main Secretariat of the Ministry of Education who died during their service period / on duty for the last 5 years is given at Annexure.

(b) Four dependents of deceased government servants have been given jobs on compassionate grounds during the last five years.

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(c) The appointment on compassionate grounds is governed by Department of Personnel and Training’s O.M. No.14014/02/2012-Estt (D) dated 16.01.2013 whereby such appointments can be made up to a maximum of 5% of vacancies falling under direct recruitment quota in any Group ‘C’ posts in the main Secretariat of the Ministry. The cases are considered by a Screening Committee duly constituted for the purpose and the eligibility of the applicants is evaluated on the basis of a point-based evaluation system to determine the status of financial destitution of the applicants’ family. The applicant with the highest score in the point scale under the zone of consideration is recommended by the Screening Committee and approved for appointment by the competent authority. The last meeting of the Screening Committee was held on 18.03.2021.

 Annexure

Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3444 to be answered on 09.08.2021 asked by Shri Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, Hon’ble Member of Parliament regarding ‘Providing jobs on Compasssionate Ground’