Agencies:

NEW DELHI: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said here today that abolition of interview is meant to check malpractices in recruitment and added that there has been very encouraging feedback from the States which were prompt in discontinuing the practice of interview in the selection for jobs, soon after the Department of Personnel & Training had issued a Circular ending the requirement of interview for Group �D', �C' and �B' Non-Gazetted posts from January 1, 2016.

Dr. Jitendra Singh recalled that it was on the Independence Day on 15th August 2015, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had for the first time suggested that the practice of holding interview for recruitment at lower level in government could be done away with.

Prime Minister Modi had said that he had seen youth often looking for "Sifarish" (recommendation) after receiving an interview call. Even poor widows are compelled to look for recommendations for interview of their children, the Prime Minister had said.