PM Narendra Modi signals ‘mission mode’, government to hire 10 lakh by end-2023
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday announced to recruit 10 lakh people in different Central government departments and ministries in the next 18 months on a “mission mode”, a deadline that ends barely 4-5 months before the Narendra Modi government again seeks mandate from people to come to power.
“PM Narendra Modi reviewed the status of Human Resources in all departments and ministries and instructed that recruitment of 10 lakh people be done by the Government in mission mode in the next 1.5 years,” the Prime Minister’s Office tweeted.
TOI on April 3 had first reported about the PM’s focus on filling up vacancies quickly and to start the process within months. Following this, every department and ministry had prepared a list of vacancies against the sanctioned posts.
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At a marathon 4-hour-long meeting with all the Central government secretaries in April, the PM had talked about the recruitment drive. Modi’s direction to expedite the filling of vacancies gains importance in the light of the opposition trying to turn “vacancies” and unemployment in general in the recently held assembly elections, particularly in Uttar Pradesh.
Though BJP defied the effort to score a comfortable victory, PM’s direction, coupled with a similar order issued by UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath, to address what can be potentially a vulnerability in its plan for 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Sources said a good chunk of the vacancies are in railways.
In response to a question in Rajya Sabha in July last year, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh had said that there were around 8.72 lakh vacant posts in different central government departments as on March 1, 2020. The sanctioned strength of all central government departments was 40.05 lakh of which 31.32 employees were in position then.
