Niranjan Pujari, the state’s minister of parliamentary affairs, provided the assembly with information on Friday disputing opposition chief whip and BJP MLA Mohan Charan Majhi’s claim that there are up to 2 lakh open entry-level positions in the state government and criticising the administration for failing to fill them.
More than 73,000 entry-level posts are lying vacant in various departments of the state government, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Niranjan Pujari informed the Assembly on Friday, responding to the claim of opposition chief whip and BJP MLA Mohan Charan Manjhi that the number is 2 lakh. over and criticized. The government is not filling them. Majhi said that out of 2 lakh posts, 26,789 are in Home Department, 12,761 in Revenue, 61,863 in School and Mass Education Department, 36,045 in Health, 8,753 in Water Resources, 9,686 in Agriculture, 11,522 in Higher Education.
Prasanta Patnaik 
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