Varanasi Municipal Corporation seeks early recruitment on vacant posts

VARANASI: Varanasi Municipal Corporation (VMC) has sought early recruitment of officers. Letter in this regard had been sent to the district administration. It would also be forwarded to principal secretary, urban development for filling the vacant posts.

VMC is facing severe crunch of officers, sanitary inspectors and sanitary workers for several years, which has been affecting the work pertaining to cleanliness in the city.

There are no zonal sanitary officers. As many as 64 posts of sanitary supervisors are vacant out of 104 sanctioned posts. The posts of two deputy municipal commissioners and three assistant municipal commissioners are also vacant.

Additional municipal commissioner Sachchidanand Singh said that the VMC is also in need of sanitary staff and drivers to collect and dump the garbage to the dumping grounds. "We are short of 50 drivers for this purpose," he added.

VMC is chalking out an immediate action plan to make the city free of garbage. "The garbage vehicles will run between dumping ground and garbage centres six times a day. Since, we have less drivers and vehicles at present, one driver will carry the garbage to the dumping ground thrice a day," he informed. The VMC is also planning to rent extra vehicles in order to meet its requirement. It may be mentioned here that VMC also has a shortage of approximately 600 sanitary workers.

Vacant posts of officers and sanctioned posts: