Key departments equivalent to engineering, well being and training are the worst affected as a result of scarcity of workers.
The Karnataka Administrative Reforms Commission not too long ago really useful to the federal government to enhance BBMP workers power so as to enhance governance, citizen companies and infrastructure high quality.
BBMP wants so as to add at the least 700 personnel, together with engineers, well being officers, authorized specialists and income officers, the fee’s report mentioned, whereas suggesting different reforms to decentralise the administration. There is a scarcity of 65 assistant govt engineers (civil) and 169 assistant engineers (civil) within the engineering division. The well being division has a scarcity of 599 posts, together with 11 well being officers, seven gynaecologists, 9 paediatricians and 58 senior well being inspectors. The training division can be short-staffed with solely 193 of its 478 sanctioned posts occupied.
Tushar Giri Nath, BBMP chief commissioner, nonetheless, advised TOI that BBMP has not allowed its operations to be affected regardless of this acute workers scarcity. According to BBMP numbers, there are solely 13 vacancies among the many 1,578 sanctioned posts within the basic administration division.
“About 90% of our education department employees are working on a contract basis. We are planning to recruit teachers with the help of the state education department’s recruitment division,” Nath mentioned.