Overview

• Departments have nearly finalized vacancy lists after updating recruitment rules and restructuring cadres under the 150-day programme.
• Of the 6,860 ST-reserved positions declared supernumerary due to invalid certificates, 1,343 have already been refilled and the rest are in active recruitment.
• The government is strengthening verification committees and forming a secretarial task force to expedite caste certificate processing.
• The Supreme Court’s lift of the hereditary appointment stay allows sanitation worker hires to proceed according to Lad-Page Committee recommendations.
• More than 100,000 posts have been filled against an initial 75,000 target and a full-scale mega recruitment is set to begin once reforms conclude.