Action-plan to fill up government vacancies

New Delhi: Following the direction of lieutenant governor (L-G) Anil Baijal, who had taken a serious view of the issue, the Delhi government’s services department has chalked out an action plan to fill up vacant posts in various departments, autonomous bodies, and agencies.

The department has issued office memoranda to all heads of all departments and apprised them of the plan to fill up vacant posts under both direct and promotional quota in their respective departments in a time-bound manner.

The move came days after chief minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Mr Baijal and cited over 36,000 vacancies across departments and institutions of the Delhi government, saying that he can do nothing due to lack of control over “services”.

In the national capital, matters related to services department comes under the LG. The department deals with the service matters of IAS officers of the Delhi government, DANICS civil service officers and those belonging to Delhi Administration Subordinate Services cadre and stenographers cadre.

“Wherever the process of direct recruitment is held up due to the reason of non-availability/pendency of amendment of recruitment rules, the department should complete the process of framing recruitment rules and issue the notification on or before Dec. 31,” the memorandum stated.

It also read that in cases where consultation with the UPSC is necessary, notification should be issued on or before March 31 next.

The instructions issued on the LG’s directions stated the department concerned should review the pending court cases to speed up the process.

Wherever the posts are ot required, the departments shall submit the proposal for abolition of posts along with a justification by Dec. 15. Another memorandum said the vacancies would be filled up on ad-hoc basis based on seniority.