Depts. submit reports on 50,000 vacancies

PRC report says there are 1.9 lakh vacancies

The State government has identified around 50,000 vacant posts in different government departments after the two-day exercise conducted by the Principal Finance Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao. But it apparently has to go a long way in identifying the total vacancies going by the status of human resources projected in the Pay Revision Commission report submitted earlier this year. The PRC said, in its report, that the sanctioned strength of the employees across the departments is 4,91,034 against which about 3,00,178 are working. This leaves vacancies in excess of 1.9 lakh. The highest number of employees 1.37 lakh are sanctioned to the School Education Department against which 1.13 lakh are presently working. The Home Department stands second in the sanctioned cadre strength at 98,394 where only 61,212 are working. Health Department with a sanctioned cadre strength of 52,906 (22,336 working) stands next followed by the Revenue Department with sanctioned strength of 27,786 (19,825 working) and Panchayat Raj Department 26,201 (13,573 working), according to the PRC report.