The Centre has asked all its ministries and departments to submit their final
report on filling up of the 'backlog' reserved vacancies (meant for SC\ST\OBC
candidates) in government jobs by Monday.
Though all the ministries were
supposed to fill up the backlog reserved vacancies through Special Recruitment
Drive (SRD) by March 31, thousands of 'reserved' seats are still
vacant.
All the ministries\departments had re-launched the drive in July
last year after reviewing the vacancy positions in the wake of the first such
recruitment drive. The first SRD was launched by the government in
2008.
Minister of state for personnel V Narayanasamy on
Thursday said that the final status from various ministries and departments was
being received in this regard.
The ministries and departments had been
reminded to furnish the final report by May 21, he added while replying to a
question in Rajya Sabha on whether the department of personnel and training
(DoPT) has asked to submit a status report on 60,000-odd reserved vacancies in
government jobs, including for the OBCs, have been filled.
Narayanasamy,
in his written response, said that the Special Recruitment Drive, 2008 was
reviewed and the government had re-launched the Drive on July 26, 2011 and all
the Central ministries/departments were requested to fill up the backlog
reserved vacancies by March 31 this year.
Giving reasons for such huge
vacancies in 'reserved' category, the minister said: "Some reserved vacancies
remain vacant for reasons like non-availability of suitable candidates, gap
between arising of a vacancy and its filling up etc. It may, therefore, be no
possible to fix any time line for filling up of all reserved
vacancies".
He, however, added that all efforts are being made to fill up
the backlog reserved vacancies and instructions already exist that if sufficient
numbers of SC/ST/OBC candidates do not become available to fill up vacancies
reserved for them in the first attempt of recruitment, a second attempt should
be made for recruiting suitable candidates belonging to the category concerned
in the same recruitment year, as early as possible, before the next
recruitment.
The minister also informed that Special Recruitment Drives
are launched from time to time for filling up of the backlog vacancies.
Source:-The Times of India
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