In a report tabled in the two Houses of Parliament yesterday, the committee said not having a chief would adversely effect the functioning of the institutes and urged the ministry to fill up the posts at the earliest.
The parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture noted that many cultural bodies such as the Salar Jung Museum, five zonal cultural centres, the Kalakshetra foundation, Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, the Delhi Public Library and the National Gallery of Modern Art were functioning without heads.
The committee said it was disappointed by the lack of commitment in filling up the vacancies existing at various levels and recommended that the ministry pursue the matter and fill up the vacancies as soon as possible.
In its reply to the committee, which is a part of the report, the ministry said that as of February 2017, the Archaeological Survey of India had vacancies in 2,914 posts, including 316 posts in the Group A and Group B categories.
The 31-member committee includes Congress's Rajeev Shukla and Kumari Selja and Shatrughan Sinha of the BJP.
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