New Delhi:
To fill up nearly 750 vacant posts in the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), the Centre will soon write to all the state governments and union territories for recommending personnel.
The top investigative agency, which is probing massive fraud cases, including the Vyapam and chit fund scams, has been facing the staff crunch. The agency has reported the same to the Supreme Court as well.
After consultations with the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), which acts as nodal authority for the CBI, it has been decided that a letter will be written to all the states and central government ministries seeking nomination of suitable officers for deputation in the agency,
sources said.
The vacancies exist at the levels of constables to Special or Additional Director.
The Bureau, which has 50 per cent of its staff on deputation basis, has a vacancy of 754, against its sanctioned strength of 4,544. Of these, 283 vacancies are at the level of inspector, 195 of constable and head constable, 65 at Deputy and Additional Superintendents of Police, 41 at SP and Senior SP-level and 12 are of Deputy Inspector General (DIG).
There are three vacancies each at the level of Joint, and Special or Additional Director, sources said.
"We will be writing to Finance and Corporate Affairs ministries, among others, to send officers on deputation. They will be of great help in probing tax and corporate related frauds," a senior DoPT official said.
The matter of staff crunch in the CBI had also come up in one of the hearings in the Vyapam case in the Supreme Court.
The apex court has asked the DoPT for information about filling of necessary vacancies in the CBI as the agency has complained that shortage of man power was coming in the way of probe.