The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi evaluated the state of human resources across all government departments and ministries on Tuesday, mandating that ten lakh workers be hired in the next 18 months.
The prime minister’s review meeting comes more than two months after cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba told central government secretaries to take prompt efforts to fill current vacancies in ministries and departments, according to news agency PTI.
The prime minister had emphasized at his meeting with the secretaries on April 2 that employment should be the goal of all government activities in the public and private sectors.
