Opp slams Govt for failing to provide information on unfilled sanctioned posts

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaSeptember 16, 2022

The opposition All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on Friday slammed the state government for failing to provide information on the total number of unfilled sanctioned posts in various departments during the last 5 years.

“From the reply, the government is intentionally avoiding giving this information,” Rangsakona legislator Zenith Sangma said.

This came after the Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma while replying to a principal question raised by Umroi legislator George B Lyngdoh said that information is being collected with regards to the total number of unfilled sanctioned posts in various departments from 2018 till 2022.

Reacting to Zenith’s allegation, Conrad said that the member is free to presume things but all this information has to be collected from the multiple directorates and offices of the different departments of the state government.

He said that cannot mislead the House since only partial information was available with the government as the vacancies changed in course of time.

According to him, there are over 63 directorates, more than 60 departments, 12 deputy commissioner offices, 6 sub-division offices, 49 blocks and Meghalaya houses in Guwahati, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and others.

“We have more than 200 different offices and even at the district level, there are also offices of different departments. Therefore, the exercise of collecting huge data is complicated but we are in the process of collecting the information,” he said.

Not satisfied with the CM’s justification, the Rangsakona legislator said that he does not know why the CM was trying to beat around the bush as he can always give information of the unfilled sanctioned posts till March 31, 2022.

Nongthymmai legislator Charles Pyngrope said that he agrees with the chief minister that many vacancies are happening everyday but there must be some information with the government it can be till this year or it can be to a certain point of time.

Salmanpara legislator Winnerson D Sangma asked why the departments could not provide such information to the chief minister considering the fact that we are living in an IT age.  

Umroi legislator George B Lyngdoh insisted that the chief minister provide information up to March 31, 2021.

In his reply, the chief minister said that the government is streamlining the departments and computerisation is happening (for maintaining of data and records).

He informed that more than 3,000 advertisements are being processed by the different recruitment boards. “Therefore, the process is on to fill up the vacant posts in the different departments,” he said.