NEW DELHI: Minister of State in charge of the Prime Minister's Office, Jitendra Singh, informed V Shivdasan MP in the Rajya Sabha that there are 9,64,354 vacancies in the central service. Vacancies over different categories-Group A 30,606, Group B 1,11,814 and Group C 8,21,934. As per the reply, posts lying vacant for two or three years will be cancelled.

Sivadasan said that some of his questions were left unanswered after the Prime Minister's announcement on June 14, 2022, that 10 lakh people would be employed in 18 months.