Data on Central government job quotas missing from DoPT’s latest annual report
The Hindu
DoPT omits reservation data in Central government jobs, sparking concerns about transparency and rights of marginalized communities.
The Union government’s Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has removed data on reservations in Central government jobs and positions from its latest Annual Report (2023-24) released last month.
A table — which contains details about all Central government positions across Ministries and Departments, and the number of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, and Other Backward Classes employees across Groups A, B, C, and D — has been a part of the chapter on reservations in all of DoPT annual reports.
The DoPT has not yet responded to The Hindu’s queries on why the table was left out this time.
On Monday (December 2, 2024), the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM), a Left-affiliated rights body, said that “deliberate concealment” of data on reservations in government jobs had emerged as a primary concern at a national convention held on Sunday (December 1, 2024) on the “exclusion of adivasis from jobs”.
Professor Vikas Rawal of Jawaharlal Nehru University, who is associated with the AARM’s Centre for Adivasi Research and Development, said on Monday (December 2, 2024) that the DoPT’s reports from 2018 onwards have not provided complete data on reservations across Central government posts.
“If you peruse the Ministry of Finance’s Pay Research Unit records, it would appear that there are over 30 lakh Central government employees, but in the DoPT’s annual reports since 2018, the data on reservations is provided for just about 19 lakh employees, with no explanation as to which employees are being left out,” Mr. Rawal said at a press conference in Delhi on Monday (December 2, 2024).
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat said that this “deliberate concealment” of information was a way to “disarm” marginalised communities from seeking and asserting their rights. “They can’t even go to court because there is no complete, consolidated data of how many jobs there are, how many reserved posts have been filled and how many remain vacant,” she said.
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