Prime minister Narendra Modi’s directive to Central authorities departments and ministries to recruit 1 million individuals within the subsequent one-and-a-half years “in mission mode” might suffice to replenish solely the present vacant common posts. A considerable variety of new vacancies being recognized can’t be stuffed with the proposed recruitment.
The PM made the assertion not too long ago after reviewing the “status of human resources in all departments and ministries”.
The variety of common Central authorities staff is round 4.8 million at current, whereas there are an extra 6.9 million pensioners.
In numerous departments and ministries of the Central authorities, there have been an estimated 0.87 million vacant common posts, as on March 2020, confirmed a labour ministry reply on March 14 this yr in Lok Sabha.
The scenario is unlikely to have improved a lot since then, as is obvious from the National Pension System (NPS) subscribers’ information. From 2.1 million on the finish of FY20, the variety of subscribers beneath the NPS from the Central authorities sector elevated to 2.28 million on the finish of FY22, ensuing an addition of simply 0.18 million.
“Filling up of vacancies is a continuous process. Government issues instructions to all the ministries/departments from time to time for timely and advance action to fill up the unfilled posts,” the labour ministry had stated in Parliament.
However, the actual fact stays, central sphere institutions similar to railways, mines, ports and oil fields are more and more getting contract employees to do their jobs.
The labour ministry, which maintains the consolidated data/information of contractual labourers/employees/staff, based mostly on the licences and registration certificates issued beneath the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 within the central sphere, knowledgeable that central sphere institutions have greater than doubled their contract employees’ depend to 2.43 million in 4 years until 2021.
As per the labour ministry, the variety of such staff within the central sphere was simply 1.17 million in 2018 and had been on the rise annually, barring in 2020.
There isn’t any consolidate information within the variety of informal employees and every day wage earners working in central sphere institutions. Respective institutions using them, based mostly on the requirement, maintain the information with themselves.
The variety of common Central authorities staff is round 4.8 million at current whereas there are pensioners 6.9 million.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”