Assam: 655 youths receive appointment letters for government jobs from CM

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma handed over appointment letters to the selected candidates of the Common Competitive Examination (2020) and junior engineers of the Irrigation Department at a function held at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati on Saturday.

As many as 655 youths got their appointments, of which 331 are for CCE and the remaining for junior engineers of the Irrigation Department.

In keeping with the State government’s pledge to choose deserving people for various government positions in a transparent and moral manner, the current administration has been hiring qualified adolescents for these positions, said Sarma.

“I offer my sincere congratulations to all 655 applicants for their selection for a government position and entering into the system to serve the people. I especially appreciate how transparently the APSC chose the applicants”, CM added.

Meanwhile, the CM urged the APSC to hold a Common Engineering Entrance Examination to select engineers for all the technical departments at one to go every year with a provision of conducting a lottery for allotment of departments to the successful candidates.

Sarma also asked the APSC for an option for inter-departmental transfer as per the requirements of the departments.

CM Himanta Biswa Sarma urged the newly appointed ACS and Allied Service Officers and Junior Engineers to commit their professional lives to the service of the state’s underprivileged and common people.