The Yogi Adityanath government is working on a mission to fill vacant posts in the Prison Administration and Reforms department.
In a high-level meeting, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed the Home and Prison Administration and Reform Services department to prepare a blueprint for recruitment. In this case, a government order to fill these positions can be quickly issued. It is to be noted that at present more than 3,500 posts are vacant in the Prison Administration and Reforms department, ranging from Group A to D.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held a review meeting of the Prison Administration and Reforms department with the Home department. The department's officials informed him that there are currently 3,504 vacant posts within the department. As many as 156 Group A posts are sanctioned in the department, out of which 107 are vacant. Similarly, 738 Group B posts are sanctioned, of which 326 are vacant. Groups C and D have 10,543 and 682 sanctioned positions, respectively, of which 2,808 and 263 are vacant.
In such a situation, against the total sanctioned posts of 12,119, at present personnel are posted on 8,769 posts, while the remaining posts are vacant. Similarly, against 7,815 posts of jail warder, 2,068 posts are vacant, for which a letter has been written to the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board on behalf of the department. Possibly in May, the recruitment process will begin for these positions.
Furthermore, there are 36 vacant posts of medical officers out of 153 total positions. The Medical and Health department is responsible for filling these posts. Along with this, the Subordinate Services Selection Commission has been notified via letter that 89 positions are vacant out of a total of 149 positions of pharmacists.
Officials informed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that it was difficult to run the prisons efficiently because there were vacant positions.
There is also a problem with providing facilities for the prisoners as per the jail manual. On this, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath instructed the officials to prepare a blueprint for vacant posts in the department and issue mandates to fill the vacant posts as per rules, on which action is underway at the government level. Soon the notification for the recruitment of these vacant posts can be issued.