Day-to-day activities of government's 280 autonomous agencies under different ministries are at slow pace for shortage of nearly a million personnel, officials said.
The ministries concerned are struggling to cope with the manpower shortages in their affiliates. A large number of agencies have taken necessary measures to fill the vacancies.
Agencies under the ministries of industries (MoI), textiles and jute, shipping, power, energy and mineral resources, housing and public works, and local government, rural development and cooperatives run shorthanded, they added.
"A good number of agencies under the MoI are facing difficulties in performing normal official tasks due mainly to shortage of manpower," a high official of the ministry told the FE.
He said completion time of respective duties or activities have been prolonging due to the shortage of requisite hands. Some activities are not complete. As a result, overall performance growth of the agencies has been slowed. They incur loses every year for the slowdown.
"Appointment to the required posts in the different autonomous agencies is a continuous process. If any agency demands recruitment of its staffs, the ministry concerned gives approval in favour of the agency to recruit manpower," Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) Md. Mofizul Islam Patwary told the FE Monday.
He said the staff-post creation and reservation for the state agencies is the main task of the MoF. The autonomous agencies can appoint staff members to their approved posts by taking authorization from their respective ministries.
"Different sate functions for the country's people are hit hard by severe shortage of staffs in the agencies' offices, which is also causing difficulties in managing the annual development projects/programmes," a top official of an agency said.
Over 91,293 approved posts in the autonomous institutions have long been lying vacant, according to the MoF statistics made available in December.
The data showed 17,704 posts of class-one officials (cadre and non-cadre), 14,846 of class-two officials, 35,184 of class-three employees and 23,559 posts of class-four employees lying vacant till December 2014.
The 280 agencies need a total of 0.356 million approved staff members to operate efficiently. Some 0.265 million staff members are now serving the government associations, the data mentioned.
Some associations under the ministry of agriculture (MoA) have informed about their manpower shortages, an official of the MoA said, adding that necessary measures are being taken to recruit the required manpower.
"The process of appointment to the vacant posts of the ministry's departments is going on smoothly and is expected to be completed gradually," he said.
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