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All vacant posts in prisons to be filled by July-end, State tells HC
The Hindu
The Maharashtra government on Thursday assured the Bombay High Court that it would fill all the sanctioned posts across the 47 prisons in the State by the end of July. The decision came after a Bench
The Maharashtra government on Thursday assured the Bombay High Court that it would fill all the sanctioned posts across the 47 prisons in the State by the end of July. The decision came after a Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni rapped the State for not filling the vacant posts in the jails. There is a shortage of two psychologists, two psychiatrists, one class-I medical officer, 11 classes II and III medical officers, 13 compounders, 30 nursing orderly, and four lab technicians. In fact, of the sanctioned 175 posts in the medical branch of prisons, only 112 posts are occupied.More Related News