Lok Sabha Question No. 4072 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-24
Subject: Vacancies in Ministry
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Deepak Baij

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4072

TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.03.2023

## VACANCIES IN MINISTRY

## 4072.   SHRI DEEPAK BAIJ:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  number  of  vacancies  in  the  Ministry  of  Women  and  Child  Development (main Secretariat) along with the subordinate bodies, organisations/ institutions under administrative control of Ministry, separately as on date, group-wise and category-wise;
- (b) the details of funds allocated, released and utilized for filling up of vacancies in above  secretariat,  organizations,  bodies,  institutions  etc.  separately  during 2022-23 till date; and
- (c) the  details  of  vacancies  filled  during  2022-23  till  date  in  main  Secretariat, subordinate organizations, bodies, institutions etc. separately?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a)         All  schemes  of  the  Ministry  of  Women  and  Child  Development  have  been revamped and converged into 3 Missions, namely, (i) Mission Saksham Anganwadi and  POSHAN  2.0,  (ii)  Mission  Shakti  and  (iii)  Mission  Vatsalya,  for  optimum utilization/rationalization  of  manpower.  Moreover,  in  respect  of  Ministry's  associate offices, the Government has decided to close down CSWB, FNB and RMK as per recommendations in the report on 'Rationalization of Government Bodies' prepared by the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India in November, 2020.

The details of group-wise/category-wise vacancies as on date in respect of the Ministry (main Secretariat) and its associate offices are given at Annexure-I.

(b)        No separate fund is allocated for filling up of vacancies in the main Secretariat or  associate  offices  of  the  Ministry.  The  expenses  are  incurred  through  budget allocated  under  Salary  Head  of  the  Ministry  and  respective  associate  offices.  The budget allocated and released under the Salary Head are as under:

## (Rupees in Crores)

|   Sl. No. | Name of Schemes         |   BE 2022-23 |   RE 2022-23 |   Released/ utilised (as on 14.03.2023) |
|-----------|-------------------------|--------------|--------------|-----------------------------------------|
|         1 | MWCD (main Secretariat) |           35 |           33 |                                   27.38 |
|         2 | FNB                     |            7 |           15 |                                   13.14 |

|   3. | NIPCCD   | 22.00                                                                                                                                    | 22.00            | 22.00        |
|------|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------|--------------|
|    4 | CARA     | 5.00                                                                                                                                     | 4.00             | 3.86         |
|    5 | NCPCR    | 4.00                                                                                                                                     | 2.15             | 1.79         |
|    6 | NCW      | 5.50                                                                                                                                     | 4.00             | 3.51         |
|    7 | CSWB     | 11.15                                                                                                                                    | 30.73            | 26.16        |
|    8 | RMK      | RMK meets all its administrative establishment expenditure generated internal sources via credit, recovery management, out of its corpus | investment fund. | and from and |

(c)        The posts of the Ministry (Main Secretariat) under Central Staffing Scheme (CSt.S), Central Secretariat Service (CSS), Central Secretariat Stenographer Service (CSSS), Central Secretariat Clerical Service (CSCS), Indian Economic Service (IES), Indian  Statistical  Service  (ISS)  and  Central  Secretariat  Official  Language  Service (CSOL) are filled by respective Cadre Controlling Authorities viz. DoPT, D/o Economic Affairs,  M/o  Statistics  &  Programme  Implementation  and  D/o  Official  Language  on recruitment/promotion/deputation/transfer in respective grades. The Ministry has no role in filling up these posts, except intimating vacancies and requesting the concerned Cadre Controlling Authorities to fill up their respective posts, which has been done on regular basis. For filling up vacancies of Group C posts for which the Ministry is Cadre Controlling  Authority  and  the  vacancies  in  associate  offices  which  are  mainly deputation posts, Staff Selection Commission has been notified/advertisements have been circulated.

The details of the posts filled in associate offices of MWCD during 2022-23 till date are as under -

| S. No.   | Name of the Ministry & its associate/attached offices   | Vacancies filled during 2022-23 till date   | Vacancies filled during 2022-23 till date   | Vacancies filled during 2022-23 till date   |
|----------|---------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| S. No.   | Name of the Ministry & its associate/attached offices   | Group A                                     | Group B                                     | Group C                                     |
| 1.       | CARA                                                    | 8                                           | -                                           | -                                           |
| 2.       | NCPCR                                                   | 4                                           | -                                           | -                                           |
| 3.       | NCW                                                     | 4                                           | -                                           | -                                           |
| 4.       | NIPCCD                                                  | 10                                          | 8                                           | 4                                           |

*****

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4072 raised by Shri Deepak Baij, for answer on 24.03.2023 regarding Vacancies in Ministry

Details  of  group-wise/category-wise  vacancies  as  on  date  in  the  Ministry's  Main Secretariat and its associate offices are as under -

## (i)         Group-wise details

| S. No.   | Name of the Ministry & its associate/attached offices                   | Vacancies   | Vacancies   | Vacancies   |
|----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|          |                                                                         | Group A     | Group B     | Group C     |
| 1.       | Ministry (Main Secretariat)                                             | 12          | 54          | 51          |
| 2.       | National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) | 45          | 64          | 100         |
| 3.       | Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA)                              | 8           | 4           | 3           |
| 4.       | National Commission for Women (NCW)                                     | 4           | 21          | 5           |
| 5.       | National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)              | 10          | 11          | 13          |
| 6.       | Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB)                                     | 14          | 51          | 18          |
| 7.       | Food & Nutrition Board (FNB)                                            | 21          | 92          | 79          |
| 8.       | Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK)                                             | 8           | 4           | 13          |

## (ii)        Category-wise details

| S.   | Name of the                                 | Vacancies                                                                                                                                | Vacancies                                                                                                                                | Vacancies                                                                                                                                | Vacancies                                                                                                                                | Vacancies                                                                                                                                | Vacancies                                                                                                                                |
|------|---------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| No.  | Ministry & its associate/ attached offices* | UR                                                                                                                                       | OBC                                                                                                                                      | SC                                                                                                                                       | ST                                                                                                                                       | EWS                                                                                                                                      | PH                                                                                                                                       |
| 1.   | Ministry (Main Secretariat)**               | 12                                                                                                                                       | 13 Including 01 PWD                                                                                                                      | 05                                                                                                                                       | 03                                                                                                                                       | 04 Including 02 Ex. Servicemen                                                                                                           | -                                                                                                                                        |
| 2.   | NIPCCD                                      | 142                                                                                                                                      | 35                                                                                                                                       | 7                                                                                                                                        | 17                                                                                                                                       | 6                                                                                                                                        | 2                                                                                                                                        |
| 3.   | CARA                                        | 15                                                                                                                                       | -                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        |
| 4.   | NCW***                                      | 1                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        | 1                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        | -                                                                                                                                        |
| 5.   | NCPCR                                       | No category-wise reservation in posts of Member. Remaining posts are filled on deputation basis for which reservation is not applicable. | No category-wise reservation in posts of Member. Remaining posts are filled on deputation basis for which reservation is not applicable. | No category-wise reservation in posts of Member. Remaining posts are filled on deputation basis for which reservation is not applicable. | No category-wise reservation in posts of Member. Remaining posts are filled on deputation basis for which reservation is not applicable. | No category-wise reservation in posts of Member. Remaining posts are filled on deputation basis for which reservation is not applicable. | No category-wise reservation in posts of Member. Remaining posts are filled on deputation basis for which reservation is not applicable. |

*          Government has decided to close down CSWB, FNB and RMK.
- **        Vacancies include Group C posts in the MWCD (Main Secretariat) for which Ministry  is  the  Cadre  Controlling  Authority.  The  Ministry  has  no  role  in  filling  up vacancies of other cadres, i.e., CSt.S, CSS, CSSS, CSCS, IES, ISS, CSOL.
- ***       Remaining  posts  are  filled  on  deputation  basis.  Thus,  reservation  is  not applicable.

*****