Lok Sabha Question No. 1503 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-09
Subject: Vacancies in Ministry of Cooperation
Ministry: COOPERATION
Asked by: Smt. Bag Mitali

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COOPERATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1503 TO BE ANSWERED ON 9th DECEMBER, 2025

## Vacancies in Ministry of Cooperation

## 1503. Smt. Bag Mitali:

Will the Minister of COOPERATION ( सहकारिता मंत्री ) be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of sanctioned posts, in position and the number of vacancies, including reserved posts across categories at the Ministry of cooperation;
- (b) the number of vacancies in the Ministry and Department, including/ reserved posts since 2014, year and category- wise; and
- (c) the number of contractual employees hired since 2014, year and category -wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF COOPERATION सहकारिता मंत्री (SHRI AMIT SHAH)

- (a) The number of sanctioned posts, in position and the number of vacancies, including reserved posts across categories in the Ministry of Cooperation including the office of Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS), as on 03.12.2025, is as follows:
- (b) The Ministry of Cooperation was created on 06 th July, 2021 by carving out Cooperation Division  from  the  erstwhile  Ministry  of  Agriculture,  Cooperation  and  Farmers  Welfare. Recruitment to various categories of posts of Ministry of Cooperation is made by the respective Cadre Controlling Authorities (such as Ministry of Cooperation, Department of Personnel and Training,  Department  of  Economic  Affairs,  Department  of  Official  Language,  Ministry  of Statistics  and  Programme  Implementation  etc.) as per the prescribed Service Rules/ Recruitment Rules. These Cadre Controlling Authorities have to ensure implementation of the reservation policy. The number of vacancies in the Ministry including/ reserved posts since its creation, year and category- wise is as follows:

|   Number of sanctioned posts |   In position |   Number of vacancies including reserved posts |
|------------------------------|---------------|------------------------------------------------|
|                          209 |           118 |                                             91 |

| Year                       |   Number of Vacancies including reserved posts |
|----------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| 2022-23 (as on 01.04.2022) |                                            159 |
| 2023-24 (as on 01.04.2023) |                                            120 |
| 2024-25 (as on 01.04.2024) |                                             95 |
| 2025-26 (as on 01.04.2025) |                                             91 |

(c) The number of contractual employees hired since creation of Ministry of Cooperation on 6 th July, 2021, year-wise is as follows:

| Year    |   Consultant |
|---------|--------------|
| 2022-23 |            5 |
| 2023-24 |           19 |
| 2024-25 |           18 |
| 2025-26 |           17 |

The consultants are hired for specific tasks to be performed for specific period through an open advertisement. Hence, no category wise data are maintained. Some of the vacancies are being managed by hiring services of some outsourced staff {such as Data Entry Operators (DEO), Multi-Tasking  Staff  (MTS)  and  House-keeping  Staff}  through  Government  e  Marketplace (GeM) following provisions of General Financial Rules.

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