Chandigarh, June 10 -- Dependents of deceased UT administration employees will now get jobs on compassionate grounds on the basis of the point-based merit system.

The UT administration will grant appointment to a dependent family member of a government servant, died in harness or who is retired on medical grounds, thereby leaving their family in penury and without any means of livelihood.

The objective of the scheme is to relieve the family of financial destitution and help them get over the emergency.

To ensure transparency, the UT administration has worked out a system of allocation of points for various attributes based on a hundred point scale so that merits of the cases can be conveniently decided by allocating points to the appli...