The Parliamentary Stand-ing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, and law and Justice in its report on Wednesday observed that lack of adequate housing is discouraging officers from States to join the CBI which is facing staff crunch. The panel also pulled up CBI for not using the allotted funds meant for housing properly.
The committee pointed out that the CBI does not have any residential quarters at nine locations in the country and even after proposed construction of houses, the satisfaction level would remain at 33.18 per cent only.
The panel’s report said CBI is facing a shortage of 21.84 per cent with only 5,685 employees as against the sanctioned strength of 7,274, the data given on the website of the agency as on March 1, 2017 shows. The maximum vacancy of over 56 per cent is in the category of technical officers with only 70 officers posted as compared to sanctioned strength of 162, it shows.
The report recommended that Government should make deputation in the CBI more attractive so that officers from State police forces, Central forces and Intelligence Bureau are “tempted” to join the organisation.
“The CBI in its submission before the Committee stated that one of the major reasons why investigators do not come on deputation to the CBI is the lack of available housing. The overall housing satisfaction is very low at pan India level and especially in Delhi where the Head Quarter is situated,” it said.