<p class="title">The government is planning to abolish all posts which are vacant for more than five years and has directed all ministries and department to submit a comprehensive report on it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In an office memorandum, the Finance Ministry said it had asked all ministries and departments to submit an action taken a report regarding the abolition of posts which are vacant for more than five years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some departments and ministries have responded but some, instead of providing a comprehensive report, have submitted the requisite information in a piecemeal manner, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Therefore, financial advisors and joint secretaries (administration) of all ministries/ departments are requested to identify the posts which are vacant for more than five years and submit a comprehensive report on abolition of such posts in the main ministry and their respective subordinate organisations at the earliest, the office memorandum, dated January 16, 2018, said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Following this, the Ministry of Home Affairs has directed all its additional secretaries, joint secretaries, chiefs of paramilitary forces and other attached organisations to submit comprehensive reports, a home ministry official told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to a preliminary estimate, there are several thousand central government posts which are lying vacant for five or more years, the official said.</p>
<p class="title">The government is planning to abolish all posts which are vacant for more than five years and has directed all ministries and department to submit a comprehensive report on it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In an office memorandum, the Finance Ministry said it had asked all ministries and departments to submit an action taken a report regarding the abolition of posts which are vacant for more than five years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some departments and ministries have responded but some, instead of providing a comprehensive report, have submitted the requisite information in a piecemeal manner, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Therefore, financial advisors and joint secretaries (administration) of all ministries/ departments are requested to identify the posts which are vacant for more than five years and submit a comprehensive report on abolition of such posts in the main ministry and their respective subordinate organisations at the earliest, the office memorandum, dated January 16, 2018, said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Following this, the Ministry of Home Affairs has directed all its additional secretaries, joint secretaries, chiefs of paramilitary forces and other attached organisations to submit comprehensive reports, a home ministry official told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to a preliminary estimate, there are several thousand central government posts which are lying vacant for five or more years, the official said.</p>