Federal Public Service Commission to fill 400 CSS posts in BS-17, says chairman
Islamabad: Around 400 new Central Superior Services (CSS) officers in grade 17 are being currently selected from a total of 693 candidates, who passed the written examination, Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) Chairman Lt Gen (R) Shahid Hamid said.
The final result will be announced by the FPSC on March 9 or 10, he said.
The FPSC chief said the backlog of vacancies would be cleared as far as the provinces of Punjab and NWFP and Azad Kashmir were concerned.
But some vacancies of CSS officers in grade 17 from the quota of Balochistan and Sindh Urban and Rural will continue to exist even after the present recruitments because of non-availability of candidates, who were successful in the written examination, Shahid Hamid said.
He said there were nearly 250 new vacancies for this year while there was a backlog of around 150 posts from all the provinces, which would be considerably cleared by the ongoing recruitment process.
The FPSC chief said that some 453 candidates from Punjab qualified in the written test. Of them, nearly 200 would be taken after the interview and other tests. They would be those who would secure overall better aggregate marks than others.
Shahid Hamid conceded that there was delay in declaration of the result of the written examination this year because one of the examiners sent the papers to the FPSC after much delay.
The second reason for delay in announcement of the result was the larger number of candidates, who cleared the written examination, he said.
He said that a greater number of candidates also passed the written test this year due to the increased number of young men taking interest in the CSS.
Shahid Hamid said that the FPSC's outreach programme through which its members and professors visited the universities and colleges to "sell the product of CSS" and successfully attracted the students to it. In the previous years, he said, the interest of educated young men has been on the decline as the private sector flourished and offered better pay packages and other facilities.
It was because of the outreach programme, he said, that the number of candidates, 9000, who appeared in the last written examination, was 50 % higher than before, the FPSC chief said and added that another consequence of the exercise was that better people applied this time.
Shahid Hamid said that a small portion of the overall World Bank funding for the FPSC to take up orientation programme was slashed during its review. He hoped that this would be restored. The next CSS written examination will start on March 14.
