The Times of India          21.08.2013

Nashik Municipal Corporation plans to fill posts on eve of panel's visit

NASHIK: A day before the visit by the legislature's committee on womens' rights, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to fill vacant posts.

The NMC has 175 posts vacant for women, from class I-IV. These posts are to be filled during the forthcoming recruitment process. This was decided in a meeting of the officials a day prior to the visit of the Maharashtra Legislative Council's Women's Rights and Welfare Committee.

In a meeting on Tuesday, amid preparations for the visit of the women's committee, officials decided to fill up the vacancies of women during the recruitment of candidates in the NMC administration in a couple of months.

"We have to fill up 175 vacancies of women in the NMC. There have not been any recruitments in the NMC for nearly a decade. Last year, as per the government's orders, we began with the recruitment process and will be recruiting candidates in a couple of months," an NMC official told TOI.

On the vacancy of women employees, he said, "Many have retired and since there was no recruitment, the retired women employees have not been replaced either. The posts are vacant in all the classes. In the next phase of recruitment, we will fill up the vacancies," said the official.

A 30 per cent reservation for women in government offices had been declared in a resolution in 1994. "A few years back, there was a demand for 50 per cent reservation, but that has not been implemented so far," said the official.

50 percent women to be recruited temporarily for Simhastha

For the forthcoming Simhastha Kumbh Mela, 150 people are to be recruited on a temporary basis by the NMC, out of whom 50 per cent will be women. An NMC official said that the civic body will be recruiting 75 women for the Kumbh, but the issue has to be discussed at meetings.