969 engineers' posts vacant at BMC: RTI

MUMBAI: As many as 969 posts out of 4,482 of civic engineers in BMC are vacant, according to a reply to an RTI query. Activist Anil Galgali had asked the query to the city engineer's office about sanctioned posts, working posts and vacant posts of engineers in BMC. The city engineer's office replied by giving a report for the October 1 to December 31, 2018, period to Galgali.
According to the report, 4,485 posts of junior engineer, sub-engineer, assistant engineer, executive engineer and deputy chief engineer were approved. Of these, 969 posts were vacant and 3,516 were working. "Considering the large scale of work BMC takes up, there is a need for engineers' posts to be filled up. I have written to the chief minister and municipal commissioner, requesting them to fill the vacant posts at the earliest," he said.
A senior BMC official said the sanction for filling up many post had been given.