It has been announced by the Central Government to give 10 lakh government jobs in different departments and ministries in the next 1.5 years. For recruitment to these posts in the coming 18 months, the government will need a budget of about Rs 4,500 crore. Let us tell you, in the last 2 years, due to Corona and other reasons, the process of recruitment in government posts has been very slow or there have been no recruitments.
Government sources say on this matter that 90 percent of these 10 lakh posts are of Group C, in which clerks, peons and semi-skilled employees are included. The cost to the government for a new Group C employee is around Rs 40,000 per month.
Sources close to the government say that it is not so easy to recruit in a short period of 18 months. The big challenge would be to train everyone after recruitment and later to promote them. A source says that such a huge recruitment simultaneously would mean that everyone would be eligible for a promotion.
According to government data, as of March 2020, 8.72 lakh government posts were lying vacant with the government, out of which 90 per cent jobs are in postal, defence, home ministry, railways and revenue departments.
Last year, Union Minister Jitendra Singh had told in the Rajya Sabha that as of March 2020, the number of posts lying vacant after the central government was 8.72 lakh. At the same time, probably now their number would have increased to more than 10 lakhs, on which the Modi government is now going to recruit. Describing the number of sanctioned posts, the Union Minister had told that there are a total of 40.04 lakh posts in the central government and as of March 2020, 31.32 lakh posts were working in these posts while the rest of the posts were vacant.
Defense (civil) has the highest number of vacancies at 2.47 lakh in 77 ministries/departments of the central government, followed by railways (2.37 lakh), ministry of home affairs (1.28 lakh), post (90,050) and revenue (76,327).