Amid what it has known as a “extreme manpower scarcity”, the Standing Committee on Finance has requested the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) to fill no less than half its vacant positions this 12 months.
“The goal of the Ministry must be to fill no less than 50 per cent of the present vacancies throughout all cadres inside this 12 months. It is usually anticipated that the remainder of the vacancies be crammed up in a time-bound method thereafter,” the committee stated in a report introduced within the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
MoSPI — which has requested for a further 2,594 junior and senior statistical officers — has constantly confronted a scarcity of officers, with the standing committee noting in its report that the variety of vacancies within the ministry’s Subject Operations Division — which is answerable for conducting surveys — rose from 614 in 2023 to 908 in the beginning of 2025. This scarcity of manpower, the report stated, “impacts the standard of the info”.
“In response to the Ministry, the identical is being addressed via participating contractual manpower and coaching them. The Committee is of the view that it is a stopgap association and doesn’t absolutely deal with the difficulty. The Committee subsequently recommends the Ministry to cope with the difficulty of extreme manpower scarcity on precedence foundation and take concrete steps in the direction of recruitment of normal field-based employees in a time-bound method,” it added.
Again in June, Rao Inderjit Singh, Union Minister of State (Unbiased Cost) of MoSPI, had advised The Indian Specific that 700 Junior Statistical Officers had been recruited for posting in several Regional Workplaces of the Nationwide Statistics Workplace via the Employees Choice Fee (SSC). “Furthermore, survey-specific engagement of contractual employees is being made with multi-level coaching focusing extra on the standard of the info,” Singh had added.
In response, MoSPI had advised the standing committee in Might that the SSC had offered a listing of 725 candidates to fill the vacancies for Junior Statistical Officers for 2024, with appointment letters being issued to 663 candidates via the ‘Rozgar Mela’ held on April 26. The Employees Choice Committee has additionally been knowledgeable of 245 vacancies within the put up of Junior Statistical Officers for 2025.
“Additional, it’s to say that the proposal of 2nd Cadre Assessment of Subordinate Statistical Service (SSS) has been submitted to Dept. of Expenditure, whereby further energy of 1,767 Junior Statistical Officers (JSOs) and 827 Senior Statistical Officers (SSOs) have been requested,” the standing committee’s report stated, quoting MoSPI.
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The Standing Committee on Finance is chaired by Bhartruhari Mahtab, the Bharatiya Janata Celebration’s Member of Parliament within the Lok Sabha from Cuttack, Odisha. It seems at issues associated to the finance, company affairs, and statistics ministries, in addition to the NITI Aayog.
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