Punjab Cabinet approves filling up 145 posts of various categories in water supply and sanitation dept

Chandigarh, April 13

In a bid to streamline the functioning of Water Supply and Sanitation Department and provide better rural water supply to people across the state, the Punjab Cabinet on Wednesday gave approval to fill up 145 posts of various categories (25 Sub Divisional Engineer, 70 Junior Engineer, 30 Junior Draftsman and 20 Steno Typist) by direct recruitment through Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) and Subordinate Service Selection (SSS) Board within a year.

According to a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office, the Council of Ministers had given approval to fill up 88 posts of aforementioned categories in Water Supply and Sanitation Department in 2021. Apart from these, the Cabinet on Wednesday also gave approval to fill 57 more posts of these categories falling vacant in 2022 due to retirement/promotion of officers/employees.

In pursuance of the earlier Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Telecommunications and the state government signed in April 2013, the Cabinet approved an addendum to help upgrade existing BharatNet infrastructure to connect all gram panchayats with national broadband network under the Centre’s Bhartnet scheme.

The state government is committed to facilitating the delivery of e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-banking, Internet and other services to rural areas by establishing a highly scalable network infrastructure which is accessible on a non-discriminatory basis. This will enable provision of on-demand affordable broadband connectivity for all households and institutes and assist in realising the vision of Digital Punjab, in partnership with the Centre.