Annual Report - Ministry of Home Affairs

ounds and Magazine 02 Nos.
8.44 SSB has a strong Civic Action
Programme under which the Force provides
medical aid and medicines, implements
veterinary aid programmes, organizes social
awareness campaigns, vocational training, youth
awareness activities and community
infrastructure development. During the year
2009-10, 04 Samajik Chetna Abhiyan including
20 Multi Dimensional Mini Campaigns were
organized in 36 villages. During these
campaigns, 92,188 patients were treated under
Medical Civic Action (MCA), 95,970 Nos. of
animals were treated under Veterinary Civic
Action (VCA). 31 cultural shows, 31 exhibition
shows, 08 Rallies, 16 Games & Sports
competition, 05 celebration of important days,
16 public meetings and study tours, 16
Motivational talks on various topics covering
Nationalism, Patriotism, National Integration,
Communal Harmony, Drug abuse etc were
held/delivered in which 26,800 villagers
participated/benefited. �e official web-site of
the SSB is ssb.nic.in.
REVISED RECRUITMENT SCHEME OF
CONSTABLES IN CENTRAL POLICE
FORCES
8.45 �e recruitment scheme of constables in
CPFs has been revised in order to make the
recruitment process fair, efficient, effective,
transparent, to reduce the scope of subjectivity
and to maximize the use of technology in the
recruitment process. �e salient features of the
revised recruitment schemes of recruitment of
Constables in CPMFs are as under:-
i. A website will be opened along with the
help line and complaint line giving therein
landline telephone numbers, mobile
telephone numbers and SMS base
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assistance.
ii. Application Form should be designed
centrally in OMR sheet so that it can be
scrutinized promptly through computer.
iii. PET will now be only qualifying in nature
and it will not carry any mark.
iv. �e written test will consist of only OMR
based objective type multiple choice.
v. Question papers may be in different series,
which will have the questions in different
orders.
vi. �e question papers should be set centrally.
vii. Interview may be discontinued.
viii.No officer against whom Departmental
Proceedings for major penalty is pending
should be associated with the recruitment
process. Similarly, an officer against whom
charges of bungling in previous
recruitment have been proved should not
be associated with the recruitment process
for next five years.
ix. No officer belonging to the state in which
the recruitment is being done should be a
member of any recruitment board for that
state.
x. �e recruitment process should be
preferably video graphed.
xi. �e biometric methods should be used at
all stages of the recruitment (In the absence
of computer based biometric equipments,
thumb impression digital photograph, and
any specific identifying mark in the body
may be used)
8.46 With a view to providing more job
opportunities to the youth of Border States and
militancy-affected areas, allocation of vacancies
is now made in the following manner:
• 60% of vacancies are allotted amongst
States/UTs on the basis of population ratio.
• 20% of vacancies in the Border Guarding
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