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Over 50 posts successful the categories of scientific, engineering, and medication stay vacant successful the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) arsenic of November 30, 2025, according to authoritative estimates.
Of the full vacant seats, 19 are successful the technological category; 11 successful the engineering wing; and 23 successful the medication section, arsenic per a study furnished by the committee earlier the Principal Bench of the National Green Tribunal dated December 18, 2025.
The tribunal had asked the State Pollution Control Boards to taxable details of vacant posts, citing its inference that manpower shortages had affected their functioning. The Kerala committee said it was awaiting authorities motion to capable the posts. The Bench had besides directed the boards to update the presumption of laboratory analytical facilities successful the format prescribed by the Central Pollution Control Board.
In the technological category, 91 posts were sanctioned, of which 72 had been filled arsenic of November 30, 2025. The study stated that appointments to six inferior technological adjunct posts were awaiting support from the Kerala State Public Service Commission (KPSC). A full of 13 Environmental Scientist and Assistant Environmental Scientist posts remained vacant owed to a deficiency of promotions from the feeder categories of Assistant Environmental Scientist and Assistant Scientist, respectively. Of the 11 vacancies successful the engineering category, assignment orders were issued for 4 posts based connected KPSC advice.
According to the report, immoderate facilities and instrumentality not disposable successful the board’s labs included a travel metre to measurement h2o flow, a diesel exhaust analyser, an Orsat apparatus (used to analyse a state illustration for oxygen, c monoxide, and c dioxide content), and an integrating dependable level metre to measurement instantaneous dependable levels.
