Srinagar 17 June (KNS): Lieutenant Governer of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha on Friday approved the recruitment of 800 Sub inspectors in Jammu and Kashmir Police.

Office of LG, an official Twitter handle of LG tweeted, "today approved the proposal of recruitment of 800 Sub Inspectors in Jammu Kashmir Police".

In historic reform of recruitment process, Services Selection Board (SSB) to carry out the selection process of all Non-Gazetted level posts in Police, Prisons and Fire & Emergency Services departments now and the selections to the posts will be based on written and physical test, Office of LG tweeted.

Common seniority for all directly recruited Sub Inspectors in the Executive & Armed Wings through a combined examination for ensuring smooth career progression, it tweeted.

The UT administration is moving ahead in direction of expediting the process for recruitment of the 25,000 promised jobs in the public sector/government departments to empower the youths of Jammu and Kashmir, tweeted office of LG.(KNS)