Lok Sabha Question No. 2850 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-02
Subject: Vacant Posts
Ministry: PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
Asked by: VINOD KUMAR SONKAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL & TRAINING)

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2850

(TO BE ANSWERED ON 02.08.2017)

## VACANT POSTS

## †2850. SHRI VINOD KUMAR SONKAR:

Will the PRIME MINISTER be pleased to state:

- (a) the  cadre-wise  and  category-wise  number  of  posts  still  lying  vacant  in  various departments of Union Government;
- (b) whether the Government has any proposal to fill up the backlog vacancies specially of scheduled castes/scheduled tribes and other reserved categories in various departments;
- (c) if so, the details thereof and the action being taken to fill up the vacancies; and (d) if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office. (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

(a): The details of group-wise number of vacancies as available in the Annual Report on Pay  and  Allowances  of  Central  Government  Civilian  employees'  for  2015-16  as  on 01.03.2015  published  by  Pay  Research  Unit,  Department  of  Expenditure,  Ministry  of Finance, is as follows:

|   Group (Gazetted)* |   Group (Gazetted) |   Group B (Non- Gazetted) |   Group C (Non- Gazetted)** |   Total |
|---------------------|--------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|---------|
|               16970 |              26849 |                     58760 |                      317968 |  420547 |

The percentage of vacant posts to the total sanctioned posts is  11.52 (%).  Data on cadre -wise details of vacancies is not maintained.

(b)to (d): The Government had constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of the then Secretary, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment to make an analysis of the reasons for  non-filling  up  of  reserved  vacancies  and  to  suggest  remedial  measures.  Based  on  the recommendations of this Committee, Department of Personnel and Training issued instructions  in  November/December,  2014  to  all  Ministries/Departments  to  constitute  inhouse Committee to identify backlog reserved vacancies, study of the root cause of backlog reserved vacancies, initiation of measures to remove such factors and to fill up the backlog reserved vacancies.

Various Ministries/Departments have constituted in-house committee and initiated action for filling up of reserved vacancies.

Department of Personnel and Training monitors the progress in filling up of reserved category vacancies for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) with 10 Ministries/Departments having majority of the employees in Central Government.

During  the period 01.04.2012  to 31.12.2016, these 10 Ministries/Departments reported 92,589 backlog vacancies (29,198 SC, 22,829 ST and 40,562 OBC vacancies). Out of these 92,589 vacancies, they were able to fill up 63,876 vacancies (20,975 SC vacancies, 15,874 ST vacancies and 27,027 OBC vacancies). There are 28,713 unfilled vacancies as on 01.01.2017 (8223 SC vacancies, 6955 ST vacancies and 13535 OBC vacancies).

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