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Government Activates NCS and Pratibha Setu Portals to Re-employ 33,950 UPSC Interview Candidates

ESIC’s first 451 recruits show how employers can tap civil service aspirants who cleared interviews for new roles

Overview

  • The NCS and Pratibha Setu portals now host profiles of 33,950 UPSC aspirants who reached the interview stage but were not selected
  • Employers including ESIC have used Pratibha Setu for initial hires, onboarding 451 officers in July
  • Since 2016, about 4.8 lakh reserved backlog vacancies have been filled through in-house committees, special recruitment drives and reservation cells
  • Reservation quotas of 15% for SCs, 7.5% for STs, 27% for OBCs and 4% for PwDs in recruitment and promotions are being actively enforced
  • The SANKALP platform has registered over 2,000 pensioners for voluntary roles with NGOs and offers pre-retirement counselling workshops