Bengal to fill up vacancies of SC, ST quota in govt services

The West Bengal Government has decided to fill vacancies of 22 per cent Scheduled Castes quota and six per cent Scheduled Tribes quota in government services, pending since the previous Left Front regime.
"The state cabinet has cleared the decision today stating that a special recruitment drive will be taken up with an immediate effect in this regard," state's Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Subrata Mukherjee said here today.
"The same quotas were there during the time of LF government, but it failed to complete the recruitment process utilising the entire quota earmarked for the SC and ST category in the state," Mukherjee said.

He said that over 13,000 vacancies had piled up in government services under the SC and ST category and that they would be filled up in phases.
There are 9,923 vacancies under SC category and 3,441 vacancies underST category.
Out of these vacancies, he said that 3,354 vacancies for SC and 1,159 vacancies for ST categories would be filled up immediately in various departments following a special recruitment drive, he said.