All six clerk-typist posts vacant in Nagpur's Law and Judiciary Department branch, RTI reply shows
Vacancies in the cadre have risen every year since 2023, and the department says it has written to the General Administration Department.
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All six sanctioned clerk-typist posts in the Nagpur branch of the state Law and Judiciary Department's Mantralaya office are vacant. The information emerged from a reply to a query under the Right to Information Act. The records show that no employee of this cadre is working in the branch in 2026, raising the question of how its administrative work is being carried on.
The reply under the Right to Information Act, 2005, shows that the number of vacant clerk-typist posts in the Nagpur branch has grown every year. Two posts were vacant in 2023 and three in 2024. The number rose to five in 2025, and in 2026 all six sanctioned posts are vacant.
The figures show that the staffing problem in this cadre has become serious. With all the posts vacant, an official explanation is needed on how the branch's day-to-day administrative work is being handled.
In its reply, the department said it has corresponded with and pursued the matter with the General Administration Department to fill the vacancies. The reply also said that applications from employees willing to work in the Nagpur branch have been forwarded for further action. Even so, all six posts are recorded as vacant in 2026. Questions are therefore being raised about where the hold-up in the filling process lies and whether any timeline has been set for filling the posts.
Clerk-typists are regarded as key staff in a government office for correspondence, handling of papers, record-keeping and other administrative work. When no employee of the cadre is present, it is necessary to know how the work is being arranged.
It will also be important to examine whether citizens' applications, government correspondence and office record work are affected. However, without separate evidence of actual delays in work or hardship to citizens, no firm conclusion can be drawn on this.
Following the information obtained under the RTI Act, the department concerned should clarify the action taken to fill the vacancies. The department's official response on why all six posts remain vacant, the present status of recruitment and the arrangement for alternative staff will be important. Attention now turns to what steps the government takes to resolve the staffing problem in the Nagpur branch and when the posts are filled.
