Taking a stern stand on backlog vacancies for the Schedule Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, the State government on Tuesday directed all departments to fill 307 such posts by this month-end and to issue a notification for filling the remaining 465 posts within a month.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of a Cabinet sub-committee comprising various Ministers, including Social Welfare Minister H. Anjaneya.
Mr. Anjaneya, who briefed reporters after the meeting, said the heads of all the departments had been warned of stern action if they failed to stick to the deadline for filling the backlog vacancies. There would be no backlog vacancies after filling these vacancies, the Minister said.
As many as 19,115 backlog vacancies were identified in various departments by the government in 2001. Of them, 15,946 vacancies have been filled so far. Of the remaining 3,169 vacancies, 2,187 have been set aside to be filled in the future owing to non-availability of those posts in the departments concerned. Sick public sector unions have been exempted from filling 210 vacancies.
