Special Recruitment Drive for SCs

As per information provided by Department of Personnel & Training, a Special Recruitment Drive has been launched to fill up the backlog reserved vacancies of SCs, STs and OBCs in the Ministries / departments / Subordinate Offices / Attached Offices /Public Sector Undertakings/Autonomous Bodies etc. of the Central Government. Information about State Governments is not centrally maintained.



Some vacancies of SCs remain vacant for reasons like non-availability of suitable candidates to fill up the vacancies. Special efforts are made to fill up such vacancies by making second attempt to fill up the vacancies in the same year or through Special Recruitment Drive etc. As per the information received from 73 Ministries/Departments, there were 24967 backlog reserved vacancies of SCs as on 01.11.2008 of which 6548 have been filled up by the Drive launched in 2008 .



This information was given by Shri. D. Napoleon, the Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.

Source:pib