Corporation posts vacant in Local Bodies Minister’s hometown
The state government may be boasting of improving the system, but the ground reality tells something else. The biggest example of this is perhaps that about half the posts are lying vacant in the Municipal Corporation, that too when the Minister of Local Bodies Department, Punjab, Dr Ravjot Singh himself is from Hoshiarpur. The information received under the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005 has revealed that out of a total of 1,031 posts in the office of Municipal Corporation, Hoshiarpur, 489 posts (more than 47 per cent) were lying vacant.
These details exposing the system have been revealed through information received from the Municipal Corporation by Labour Party president Jai Gopal Dhiman under the RTI.
In the MC office, 27 out of 59 posts of officers and employees in general administration were vacant. Among these, one post of Additional Commissioner, one post of secretary and one post of DCFA were vacant. Apart from this, there was only one post of Law Officer which was vacant. There was only one post of PA which was vacant, similarly, the post of Accounts Officer Grade 2 was also vacant.
In the important town planning wing, 7 out of 15 posts were vacant of which 1 out of 2 posts of Assistant Town Planner, 3 out of 4 posts of Draftsman, 2 out of 5 posts of Building Inspector and 1 post of Kanungo-Patwari were vacant.
All 10 posts in the police administration wing of GIM were vacant. one post of Assistant Sub-Inspector (this employee was to be taken on deputation in Police Department) was vacant, one post of Havildar was vacant while all eight posts of constable were vacant. Dhiman said that by keeping the posts of important officers and employees, sweepers and sewermen vacant, the government was destroying the urban sanitation infrastructure and in the name of development, everything was being developed only on the big flex boards put up for the sake of publicity.
