-ThePrint.in Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh says there were 78,923 Vacant posts under reserved categories on 1 January 2020, and 42,066 of them remain unfilled. New Delhi: Over 42,000 posts reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Castes (OBC) are vacant in various central government ministries, the Narendra Modi government has revealed. In a written reply presented before Lok Sabha, Minister of State (MoS) in...
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Over 60% OBC, SC positions vacant in IIMs -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Glaring gaps in faculty reservations at central educational institutions More than half of the faculty positions reserved for OBCs in central institutions of higher education are vacant, while about 40% of those reserved for Scheduled Castes and Tribes also remain unfilled, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank told Lok Sabha on Monday in a written response to a question from three Congress MPs. The situation is particularly acute in the elite Indian...
More »Over one-third of judges’ posts lie vacant in 12 high courts. So much for collegiums -Arvind Kumar
-ThePrint.in Bihar, one of India’s most populous states, has the highest judges’ vacancy in its high court. That says a lot about India’s ability to render timely justice. The number of pending cases in India’s higher judiciary and the number of vacancies in the Supreme Court and the high courts have been simultaneously increasing. The number of pending cases, which is directly related to the judge-to-population ratio, is an important tool to...
More »Urgent appeal to SC on RTI vacancies
-The Telegraph The petition filed accused the Centre of having misled the apex court in April by saying it had complied with its December 2019 order to fill all the posts RTI activist Anjali Bharadwaj on Monday applied to the Supreme Court for an “urgent” hearing of a petition that seeks the immediate filling of all the vacancies at the Central Information Commission, where six of the 11 posts are currently unoccupied. The...
More »Where is the staff to serve in rural areas and implement schemes?
Huge sums of money are allocated for the rural and agrarian sectors by the Union Government in its annual budget every year, and rightly so. But in the absence of an adequate number of officials in rural areas, can the various schemes and programmes of the government be implemented properly? We will find the answer if we think about this issue deeply and the answer that would emerge should bother...
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