Six key commissions in Uttar Pradesh hamstrung by vacancies
Hindustan TimesSix important commissions set up under specific laws for key purposes in Uttar Pradesh have been hamstrung by vacancies in their top echelons for a year or more. Picture this: the office of Uttar Pradesh Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes on the 10th floor at Indira Bhavan in Lucknow wears a deserted look even as it anxiously awaits new appointments to key positions. Though the government gave additional charge of SC-ST commission chairman to the minister of state for social welfare Asim Arun in July, the positions of two vice-chairpersons, 25 members and one secretary have been vacant for close to a year. The commission’s chairman Jaswant Singh Saini was made a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government 2.0 in March and the position has been vacant since. “The law mandates the government to appoint a chairman, five members and one member-secretary in the food commission but the commission has been virtually non-existent for two years though the government is learnt to have begun the process for fresh appointments,” former commission member Ismail Khan said.
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