Bhopal, March 5 -- Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President Jitu Patwari has demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention vis-a-vis vacant posts in the Agriculture and associated departments.
In a letter to Modi, Patwari wrote that the Agriculture Department's official figures reveal that of 14,537 sanctioned posts, 8,468 are lying vacant. It is being claimed that 40 per cent of the sanctioned strength is solving the problems of the entire state's farmers.
"This is not limited to Agriculture, historic vacancies are there in almost all the related departments," he said.
Patwari provided statistics of the Fisheries, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Cooperatives departments. He stated that experts are of the clear opinio...