Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

On the fourth day of the winter session of Parliament, the Personnel Ministry informed the Rajya Sabha that there were nearly seven lakh vacant posts in different central government departments as on March 1 last year.

Based on the vacancies reported by the user departments, the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has started the recruitment process to fill up 1,05,338 posts during the year 2019-2020, he said. Of the total of 6,83, 823 vacant posts, a total of 5,74,289 are in Group C, 89,638 in Group B and 19,896 in Group A category, as on March 1, 2018, according to a data given in a written reply by Minister of State for Personnel, Jitendra Singh.oc

“Thus, the recruitment process to fill up 4,08,591 vacancies by the SSC, RRBs, and department of posts, is in progress,” Singh said. To reduce the recruitment cycle, recruiting agencies have switched over to computer-based online test, interview for non-gazetted posts has been discontinued effect from January 1, 2016, and the provisional appointment is being made pending verification of antecedents of the candidates, he said.

In another reply, the minister said there were backlog reserved vacancies for scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs) and other backward classes (OBCs).

The Personnel Ministry monitors the progress in filling up of backlog reserved vacancies for SCs, STs, and OBCs with ten ministries and departments, having more than 90 percent of the employees in the central government. Out of these ten ministries and departments, six have informed that as on December 31, 2017, out of 13,968 backlog vacancies for SCs, 11,040 backlog vacancies for STs and 20,044 backlog vacancies for OBCs, 6,186 backlog vacancies for SCs, 4,137 backlog vacancies for STs and 9,185 backlog vacancies for OBCs were filled up, the minister said.

As on January 1, 2018, 7,782 backlog vacancies for SCs, 6,903 backlog vacancies for STs and 10,859 backlog vacancies for OBCs remained unfilled, he said. “Besides the above six, three more ministries/departments have informed that as on December 31, 2018, out of 9,624 backlog vacancies for SCs, 8,659 backlog vacancies for STs and 7,293 backlog vacancies for OBCs, 7,911 backlog vacancies for SCs, 6,129 backlog vacancies for STs and 5,520 backlog vacancies for OBCs were filled up,” Singh said.

As on January 1, 2019, 1,713 backlog vacancies for SCs, 2,530 backlog vacancies for STs and 1,773 backlog vacancies for OBCs remained unfilled, the minister said.

This statement comes after Congress General Secretary Priyanka Singh Vadra called out BJP for the lack of job creation and causing an ‘epidemic’. In the tweet, she claimed: “About 35 lakh jobs have been lost in the construction sector. The big IT companies are about to about 40 lakh jobs.”

By Pallavi

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