There are 30,000 posts lying vacant mainly in the education and health department of Delhi government since 2013 is expected to be expedited following the directions of the Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena to fill 117 vacancies in Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB). The process to recruit these 117 people is expected to be completed within two weeks.
According to DSSSB sources, these posts have been lying vacant since as long as 2013, due to the lackadaisical attitude of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, which has been preferring to appoint contractual employees against permanent government vacancies.
Sources said that with these 117 people onboard, the process to fill up the 30,000 vacant positions in the Delhi government, some of which are lying vacant since 2013, will be expedited. These posts were created by a decision of the lieutenant governor in May and consist of deputy secretaries, section officers, assistant section officers, senior assistants, junior assistants, legal assistants and peons. "Their recruitment is in the final stages and will be completed within two weeks.
Once these posts are filled, the DSSSB will be fully staffed and we can expect it to expedite the process of efficiently conducting examinations and interviews to select the 30,000-odd candidates for various government departments, including health and education," sources said.
The 30,000 pending vacancies include those of teachers, nurses, paramedical staff, physical training instructors and technicians. Sources at Raj Niwas said that the LG, right after taking over had expressed serious concern and displeasure over unduly and inordinately delayed vacancies in several government departments of critical importance to the people of Delhi.
He had also flagged the issue of filling up of such permanent vacancies on a contractual basis, which often led to favoritism in appointments, misappropriation of government money in the name of ghost employees and ultimately an unconstitutional deterrent to the equal right of employment provided to the citizens of Delhi and the country, vide the Constitution of India.
The DSSSB is mandated to select candidates for Group ‘B' (non-gazetted) and Group ‘C' for government departments, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Corporation and other government undertakings.