State Minister for Public Administration Md Abdul Bari on Thursday informed the National Parliament that recruitment to some 3,110 vacant posts under the Ministry of Public Administration will be completed within the next five years.
He informed the parliament that short-, medium-, and long-term action plans spanning six months, one year, and five years have already been formulated to fill vacant positions in government offices under the Ministry of Public Administration.
The state minister said this while responding to a starred question placed by treasury bench member Sarwar Jamal Nizam (Chittagong-13) in the National Parliament on Thursday.
According to the plan, he said recruitment to 2,879 vacant posts under the Ministry of Public Administration will be completed within six months, 4,459 posts within one year, and 3,110 posts within five years, he added.
The state minister further said that, in line with the action plan's target of "recruitment of 50,000 government employees with transparency and speed," the Ministry of Public Administration has requested all ministries and divisions to provide updated information on the current status of recruitment and vacant posts.
The state minister also informed that, according to the latest published Statistics of Public Servants 2024, based on updated manpower data as of December 31, 2023, the total number of vacant posts across all ministries and government offices stands at 468,220.
Of these, 68,884 posts fall under grades 1-9, 129,166 under grades 10-12, 146,799 under grades 13-16, and 115,235 under grades 17-20. In addition, there are 8,136 vacant posts under honorary, fixed-pay, and contractual categories.
