Ashish Sood blames AAP for 25% staff crunchin fire department

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Home Minister Ashish Sood connected Sunday blamed the erstwhile Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities for failing to fortify the Delhi Fire Services (DFS), saying the Rekha Gupta-led authorities is present paying the terms for a decennary of “inaction and apathy”.

Mr. Sood, who is besides the Education Minister, said astir 25.7% of posts successful the DFS’s operational and firefighting helping stay vacant due to the fact that of the AAP government’s nonaccomplishment to capable them.

“The AAP authorities did not bash thing to amended the DFS and we are suffering due to the fact that of that now. Our authorities is successful the process of filling these vacancies and modernising the DFS,” helium said.

Mr. Sood said 853 of the 3,312 sanctioned posts successful the operational and firefighting helping were vacant portion 43 of the 132 sanctioned posts successful the connection helping were vacant arsenic of February 28.

Overall, 1,030 of the DFS’s 3,633 sanctioned posts crossed categories were vacant till February 28, helium added

Published - June 08, 2026 01:18 americium IST

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