969 posts out of 4482 engineers in Mumbai Municipal Corporation vacant :

The post of Engineer is important in Mumbai Municipal Corporation for implementing the actual work by preparing budget and provide the civic facilities from Engineering Department. According to RTI activist Anil Galgali, the Municipal Engineer’s office has given information that 969 Engineers posts are vacant out of total 4482 posts in Municipal Corporation.

RTI activist Anil Galgali had asked the query to City Engineer’s office about the sanctioned posts, working posts and vacant post of Engineers for different posts. The City Engineer’s Office sent a quarter report ( from 1 October to 31 December 2018) to Anil Galgali. According to this report, a total of 4485 posts of Junior Engineer, Sub Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Executive Engineer and Deputy Chief Engineer are approved. Of these, 969 posts are vacant and 3516 are actual working.

In the quarterly report given to Anil Galgali, the Deputy Chief Engineer has 76 posts, out of which 46 are actual working and 30 are vacant. Executive Engineer has 288 posts and currently 214 officers are working. 74 posts are vacant. Apart from this, Assistant Engineer has 781 posts out of which 703 posts are working and 78 are vacant. Sub Engineer has 2170 posts and 362 posts are vacant. Presently 1808 posts are working. The posts of Junior engineer are 1167. At present 425 posts are vacant and 742 junior engineers are working.

According to Anil Galgali, while the growing scope of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is needed for the engineer, the sanctioned posts are largely vacant. Galgali sent a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Municipal Commissioner Pravin Singh Pardesi and requested them to fill the vacant post as earliest .