Punjab CM announces drive to fill over 26,000 vacancies in govt departments

The Punjab government on Thursday announced plans to fill up 26,454 vacancies in various government departments. Announcing the recruitment drive, Punjab Chief Minister, Bhagwant Mann, said the vacancies are in 25 different departments. Mann also reiterated his government’s commitment to give jobs to the eligible candidates "on the basis of their educational qualifications strictly according to their merit." Announcing massive recruitment drive on completion of 50 days of AAP government in office, CM @BhagwantMann reiterated his government’s commitment to give jobs to eligible candidates on basis of their educational qualifications strictly according to meritpic.twitter.com/00HLRfAQYM — Government of Punjab May 5, 2022 In a video message, the Chief Minister further said that the state government had already issued a detailed Promising enormous job opportunities for the youth, Bhagwant Mann said that the state government would soon come up with more government and private jobs to provide people a livelihood and enable them to lead a life with dignity. Bhagwant Mann also referred to several pro-people initiatives likely to be taken by his government which would be announced in the Annual General Budget 2022-23 during the budget session in the Vidhan Sabha.