Uttar Pradesh reserves 5% Group C jobs for ex-service personnel

LUCKNOW: UP gvernment will now reserve 5% of jobs in Class C posts for ex-service personnel.
Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday announced that retired and former service personnel from all three services, army, navy and air force, will be eligible for 5% reservation in Group C posts.
To be eligible for the job, one will have to be an original resident of Uttar Pradesh. The reservation will be provided at each level on a ‘horizontal basis’. “This move will encourage ex-officials and workers and help their families financially,” said a government spokesperson.
He added that UP sends the most number of people in the defence services and at present, a large number of ex-service personnel reside in the state. The government has also recently increased the financial assistance given to the family of a martyr from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 50 lakh.
“The government is also providing jobs to a member of a martyr’s family. It was decided that a member of the family of any defence services and paramilitary forces, who is martyred after April 1, 207, will be given a government job. An order to this effect was issued on March 19, 2018,” the spokesperson said, adding that there was no such provision under earlier governments.