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Centre plans dashboard to align government exam dates
Livemint··5d ago
The Department of Personnel and Training is planning a centralized dashboard so recruitment agencies share exam schedules and avoid clashes, Livemint reported. Central departments employ about 3.16 million staff against 4 million sanctioned posts, leaving around 850,000 vacancies, per the FY24 pay report. SSC alone conducted 20 exams in 2024-25 with 20.5 crore candidate appearances.
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What It Means For You
- Job aspirants facing overlapping exam dates may save travel costs if agencies coordinate before notifications go out.
- Candidates tracking postponements could use a single view of cancellations and reschedules across commissions.
- Departments with large vacancy gaps depend on timely exams to fill sanctioned posts across ministries.
What's Happening
- Officials cited paper leaks, glitches, litigation and clashing dates as sources of 2026 disruptions.
- UPSC delayed the Civil Services Examination 2026 notification before holding prelims on 24 May.
- India Post postponed a departmental exam after its date clashed with a revised NEET schedule, the report said.
Public recruitment scheduling reform
- The NTA conducted 48 examinations for 8.01 million candidates in 2024, the story noted.
- IBPS, UPSC, SSC, NTA and railway boards all run large annual recruitment drives.
- Real-time data sharing among state governments and agencies is part of the proposed dashboard design.
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