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The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the country’s apical contamination power watchdog, submitted this accusation to the NGT connected Friday (Express Archives)
Reflecting tardy advancement connected compliance of a National Green Tribunal (NGT) bid to capable up vacant posts crossed contamination power boards successful the state by April end, lone 167 posts retired of 2,228 vacancies person been filled truthful acold successful 12 states and 2 national territories. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the country’s apical contamination power watchdog, submitted this accusation to the NGT connected Friday.
Based connected affidavits submitted to the NGT past year, retired of 11,562 sanctioned posts, 5,671 oregon 49.04 per cent, were reported to beryllium vacant successful 28 states and 8 national territories.
The CPCB had not received advancement reports connected filling of the remaining 3,443 vacancies from 16 authorities contamination power boards and six contamination power committees of national territories, the CPCB’s affidavit stated. Pollution power boards cited delays owed to reasons ranging from unavailability of candidates from feeder cadres successful different authorities departments, backlog successful filling reserved quota posts, behaviour of recruitment exams and vacancies which were nether process owed to promotions.
“Out of 36 SPCBs/PCC’s, CPCB has received beforehand transcript of affidavits (progress report) from lone 14 SPCBs/PCC namely Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Punjab, Telangana, Tripura, Ladakh and Puducherry,” the CPCB stated. Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland among states and Lakshadweep among national territories are the lone ones with zero vacancies.
The states which did not taxable advancement reports are Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal. Andaman & Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Lakshadweep were among national territories which did not taxable a advancement report.
The CPCB’s affidavit was filed successful compliance with an bid passed by the NGT’s main seat past September 11, directing each states, but Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh to capable vacant posts by April 30, 2025.
The NGT’s absorption near retired states falling successful the National Capital Region arsenic a Supreme Court bid of August 27 had already covered them. NGT’s September 11 bid was passed successful a substance it had taken up suo moto, based connected a quality report.
Out of 5,671 posts, the CPCB’s affidavit consisted of information for 2,228 posts crossed 12 states and 2 national territories.
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