2.83 lakh central government jobs by 2018

This projection has been made in the Union Budget for 2017-18 presented last week by Minister Jaitley. As per the budget documents, the workforce of the central government establishments would be 35.67 lakh in 2018, about 2.83 lakh more than the actual head count of 32.84 lakh in 2016. The Home Ministry will add 6,076 more personnel to take its strength to 24,778 in 2018. 

About 1.06 lakh more workforce will be added in police departments to take the total head count to 11,13,689 by 2018. The strength of police departments under the central government is 10,07,366, as per the 2016 data. There will be an estimated increase of 2,109 persons in the External Affairs Ministry as against its actual strength of 9,294 in 2016, it said. There would be an estimated 1,045 more staff in 2018 in the Ministry of Civil Aviation from its actual strength of 1,141 in 2016. In the Department of Posts, there would be 20,442 more workforce from its strength of 4,48,840.