Question : Vacant Posts of Reserved Categories

(a) whether approximately twenty one thousand odd number of posts are vacant especially in Class I and II in Central Government under various reservation categories of SC, ST and OBCs and if so, the details thereof, Ministry/Department-wise;
(b) whether the Government proposes to trace where the recruitment mechanisms are lacking to fill up these vacant posts and to find out the about deliberate handling of these issues by the concerned officers;
(c) if so, the details thereof; and
(d) the corrective steps the Government is proposing to fill up these vacant posts?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS AND MINISTER OF STATE IN THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

(a): Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) monitors the progress in filling up of backlog reserved vacancies for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) with ten Ministries/Departments, having more than 90% of the employees of Central Government. These Ministries/ Departments collect such data from their attached/subordinate offices, Central Public Sector Undertakings, Financial Institutions, Nationalized Banks, etc and, thereafter, furnish consolidated data to DoPT. Ministry/Department-wise and category-wise (i.e. SCs, STs and OBCs) details of backlog reserved vacancies, as on 01.01.2020, is enclosed. Data on Class-wise i.e. Class-I, Class-II, Class-III and Class-IV are not centrally maintained by DoPT.

(b) to (d): Filling of vacancies, along with backlog reserved vacancies, is a continuous process. Instructions have been issued to all Ministries/Departments of the Central Government to constitute an In-House Committee for identification of backlog reserved vacancies, to study the root cause of such vacancies, to initiate measures to remove the factors causing such vacancies and to fill them up through Special Recruitment Drives. Each Ministry/Department of the Central Government is required to designate an officer of the rank of Deputy Secretary and above, as Liaison Officer, to ensure due compliance of the orders and instructions pertaining to reservation. Further, each Ministry/Department is required to set up a Special Reservation Cell under the direct control of the Liaison Officer to assist her/him in discharge of duties.

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