Chandigarh, July 3: The Punjab Finance Department has authorized the immediate filling of 716 public sector positions across the healthcare and industrial sectors to improve regional service delivery. Under the approved framework, 619 vacant Group-C posts for female multipurpose health workers will be processed immediately alongside 97 strategic positions within the Department of Industries. The policy focus remains on ensuring that vital public-dealing offices are adequately staffed without compromising state fiscal guidelines.
The revised recruitment strategy utilizes a mix of direct hiring and internal progression to optimize the state medical cadre. More than half of the incoming health worker positions are earmarked as promotional avenues for trained regional workers, while dozens of older, previously dissolved posts are being formally revived. The state has committed significant budgetary resources to cover the financial implications of these technical placements under updated service rules.
Finance Minister Advocate Harpal Singh Cheema asserted that the administration altered the hiring pipeline specifically to ensure efficiency. “To ensure the maximum efficiency of this recruitment drive, the state government has consciously decided to remove these 619 appointments from the jurisdiction of the Punjab Subordinate Services Selection Board due to the prolonged timelines typically associated with their hiring processes,” the Minister maintained. He declared that Baba Farid University will manage the process to accelerate field deployment.
The state is also reversing severe personnel constraints within the Department of Industries, which had lost over forty percent of its organizational strength during a prior restructuring drive. Officials noted that further staffing reductions would severely impact ground-level operations and commercial support services. To establish a sustainable long-term plan, the department has been instructed to draft a modernized structural overview for evaluation by the Finance Department.
