64% engineers’ posts lying vacant in Bihar

Patna, Feb 13 : Despite jobs being one of the core agendas in the run up to the Assembly elections in Bihar last year with the ruling NDA announcing to create 19 lakh jobs for the youth of the state, the situation on the ground remains largely unchanged. The large number of posts for engineers lying vacnt in different government departments only substantiate this fact.
The IANS has obtained specific information about 64 per cent posts of engineers lying vacant in various government departments.
According to a top official, of the total of 6,322 posts of assistant engineers, executive engineers, superintending engineers and chief engineers in different departments like road construction, rural development, public health, water resources, building construction, urban housing and development and planning, as many as 4,051 are lying vacant.
“The recruitment of engineers starts at the assistant engineer level, generally in the road construction and water resources departments. Following seniority, these engineers are transferred to other departments after promotion. Besides, direct recruitment also takes place in other departments,” said Dilip Kumar Dinkar, General Secretary, Subordinate Engineers Service Commission (SOESC), Bihar.
At present, of the 4,680 sanctioned posts for assistant engineers in various departments, 3,289 are lying vacant. Besides, of the 1,249 executive engineers’ posts, 529 are vacant in different departments.
Similarly, 317 posts of superintending engineers are sanctioned in different departments of which 170 are vacant. There are 65 posts for chief engineers and 52 of them are vacant. Of the 11 posts for engineering heads, 10 are vacant.