UT to launch drive to fill vacancies at govt depts

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

Tribune news service

Chandigarh, September 21

The Chandigarh Administration will soon launch a massive drive to fill vacant posts in various government departments.

Sources said the Personnel Department had issued directions to all administrative secretaries/head of departments to take immediate steps for filling of vacant posts through direct recruitment. The order issued by the Secretary, Personnel Department, said it had been observed that instructions to fill the posts regularly were not being complied with scrupulously by various departments, boards, corporations due to which a large number of posts of different categories were lying vacant and the official work was suffering. Therefore, these posts needed to be filled immediately.

The order further said the University Institute of Applied Management Sciences (examination unit), Sector 14, Panjab University, had been notified as the recruiting agency for the administration. The department can take help of the institute for recruitment.

The Police, Electricity, Health and Transport are some of the major departments where a large number of posts have been lying vacant. Sources said a number of posts were lying vacant in the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 — 176 in group C, 30 in group B and 33 in group A. The other departments in which various posts are yet to be filled include Transport (95), Assistant Director, Malaria, (26), CCET (15) and Senior Town Planner (12).

Sources said more than 700 posts were lying vacant in group C category in various departments. The drive had been started on the directions of the Ministry of the Home Affairs, they added.