The power to recruit the Secretarial staff of the House of the People is vested in:

BPSC treated this question as having no correct option (cancelled).

Explanation

At the administrative level, the authority to issue appointment orders for the Lok Sabha Secretariat staff lies with the Speaker (Speaker of the Lok Sabha), while the constitutional rule-making power for this entire framework, under Article 98(3), lies with the President, who, after consultation with the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, makes rules for regulating the recruitment and conditions of service of the Lok Sabha Secretariat staff. If it is viewed purely as “who issues the individual appointment orders”, then under the above constitutional provision, the appointing authority is the Speaker of the Lok Sabha as per Rule 6 of the Lok Sabha Secretariat (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1955, which are made by the President after consultation with the Speaker. Hence, the correct answer should be “Speaker of the Lok Sabha”, but it has not been given separately among the options.