Bihar government to recruit 1,000 firemen

 Application forms would be made available at designated 81 post offices located in district headquarters and sub-divisional headquarters across the state

PATNA: After a gap of 22 years, the state government has decided to recruit 1,000 firemen to at least fill up the vacancies as the fire services in the state was in complete disarray.
Perhaps the fear of getting embroiled in legal wrangles made the senior officers concerned desist from recruiting firemen. As a result, the number of vacancies swelled over the years. However, when the situation took a turn for the worse and it became difficult to attend to emergency fire calls even in the state capital, the former DG, homeguards and fire services, Manoje Nath, before his superannuation in June this year, suggested the state home department to recruit firemen through the Central Selection Board for Constables (CSBC).
The home department accepted Nath's suggestion. CSBC chairman Sunit Kumar, who is currently busy with recruitment of over 7,000 police constables, told TOI that the ad for firemen's recruitment would be issued soon. Application forms would be made available at designated 81 post offices located in district headquarters and sub-divisional headquarters across the state soon, he added.
The work of recruitment of police constables and firemen would be taken up simultaneously by the CSBC, said Kumar and added that forms meant for the candidates belonging to Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe categories would be made available at a cost of Rs 75 per form while those belonging to general, backward and most backward castes would get the same at Rs 200 per form. All forms would carry security code and cannot be copied.
Chief Post Master of GPO, Patna, has been made the nodal officer for selling of forms, so that candidates do not face any difficulty in procuring forms. All postmasters of the designated post offices were imparted training jointly by Sunit Kumar and director, postal services (business development), Anil Kumar, on Sunday at the GPO here.

Post offices had earlier sold 9 lakh forms for the recruitment of police constables, and it is expected that a large number of youths would also apply for the firemen's job.

Source : The Times of India, July 30, 2012