Aiming to enhance efficiency, CCI proposes changes to recruitment rules

The Competition Commission of India has proposed changes to the recruitment rules, aiming to support the regulator's professional and administrative capacities in light of its growing obligations. These modifications are a vital step towards improving the CCI's effectiveness, given its enlarged mandate. The draft amendments pertain to the CCI (Salary, Allowances, Other Terms and Conditions of Service of the Secretary and Officers and Other Employees of the Commission and the number of such Officers and Other Employees) rules. These changes necessitate the recruitment of additional officers at the feeder level to ensure efficient and timely bound manner. In a consultation paper released by CCI, the regulator proposed "introduction of direct recruitment at level-10 and level-8 of the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) for professional and administrative stream officers, respectively". "For IT stream, it is proposed to have direct recruitment at Level-10 of 7th CPC", it added. The ...