UP cabinet approves 58,000 jobs in gram panchayats

the UP Cabinet on Wednesday, in a major decision, cleared a proposal that will see over 58,000 jobs being created, the cabinet gave nod to the appointment of a panchayat assistant and accountant-cum-data entry operator and construction of a panchayat office or rural secretariat for each panchayat in the state.

There are 58,189 gram panchayats in the state, many of which were without even basic office till now even though they are responsible for implementing some of the most important government schemes.

Currently, there are 16,000 sanctioned posts of gram panchayat officers and gram development officers against which only 10,000 are employed. Similarly, there are 33,577 gram panchayat Bhawan on the ground, while 24,617 are under construction. These buildings will be repaired for which approximately Rs 1.75 lakh will be allocated. A Jan Seva Centre will be set up in each panchayat office and separate space would be allocated for banking correspondent Sakhi.

In another important decision, the Cabinet approved the proposal to cancel a government order of 2011 for a 3% disability reservation in government departments and replaced it with a new order under which recruitment for disabled persons will be done directly by each department for group A, B, C and D services.

The recruitment will be done as per a 2016 order in which the earlier seven categories of disability had been expanded to include 21 others and reservation was extended from 3% to 4%.