{"id":197623,"date":"2026-04-02T10:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=197623"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:30:47","slug":"over-59000-posts-vacant-in-iiojk-omar-abdullah-reveals-in-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/02\/over-59000-posts-vacant-in-iiojk-omar-abdullah-reveals-in-assembly.html","title":{"rendered":"Over 59,000 posts vacant in IIOJK, Omar Abdullah reveals in Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197640\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/04\/00.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has informed the Legislative Assembly that over 59,000 posts are lying vacant across 38 government departments, triggering a debate about the administration&#8217;s ability to deliver public services.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the vacant posts include 48,958 non-gazetted and 10,217 gazetted positions, with 24,507 non-gazetted and 3,808 gazetted posts vacant under the direct recruitment quota, and 24,451 non-gazetted and 6,409 gazetted posts vacant under the promotion quota.<\/p>\n<p>The districts with the highest number of vacancies are yet to be disclosed, but the CM stated that a total of 16,812 non-gazetted and 2,798 gazetted posts are vacant across all 20 districts.The opposition has criticized the government for failing to fill the vacancies, citing it as a major reason for the poor state of public services in the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government has cleared bills amounting to Rs 12,561.31 crore under various heads, including gratuity, commutation, leave salary, and contractor payments, and settled GPF bills worth Rs 5,821.43 crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has informed the Legislative Assembly that over 59,000 posts are lying vacant across 38 government departments, triggering a debate about the administration&#8217;s ability to deliver public services. According to Kashmir Media Service, the vacant posts include 48,958 non-gazetted and 10,217 gazetted positions, with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/04\/00.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197642,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197623\/revisions\/197642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}