The Uttar Pradesh authorities on Tuesday introduced a three-year age leisure for candidates making use of for police constable jobs within the state. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued an order on this regard and directed officers to provoke the method to offer age leisure for candidates making use of for the recruitment of 60,244 police constables.
Asserting the choice, Chief Minister Adityanath wrote on X (previously twitter), “Your government is fully committed to the interests of the youth and their bright future. In the ongoing recruitment process for the position of Reserve Civil Police in UP Police, it has been decided to grant a relaxation of three years in the upper age limit for all categories of candidates”.
As per the most recent recruitment notification revealed on December 23, the minimal age for candidates was 18 years, and the utmost was 22 years to use for the 60,244 constable vacancies.
Candidates, in addition to political leaders from the ruling BJP and Opposition, have been demanding a leisure within the higher age restrict, primarily citing the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic within the final two years.
On Tuesday, the “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed the Principal Secretary (Home Department) to give three years relaxation in the age limit of candidates of all categories in the police recruitment this time,” in line with an official assertion from CM’s workplace.
Jewar (Gautam Buddh Nagar) MLA Dhirendra Singh and Anupshahar (Bulandshahr) MLA Sanjay Sharma met the Chief Minister within the state capital on Tuesday to press for age leisure. This demand has additionally been raised by opposition events, together with Rashtriya Lok Dal, which not too long ago initiated a public marketing campaign on this matter.
Out of the 60,244 vacancies within the police service, 24,102 are unreserved, 6,024 for economically weaker sections, 16,262 for Different Backward Courses, 12,650 for Scheduled Castes, and 1,204 for Scheduled Tribes. Moreover, 20 % of the full posts have been reserved for girls.
The applying course of will start on December 27 and proceed till January 16.
