NEW DELHI: Over 4.75 lakh vacancies in the Central ministries and departments will be filled up soon, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.MoS (personnel) Jitendra Singh , in written reply to a question, said that during the year 2019-20, three recruiting agencies namely, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), Staff Selection Commission (SSC) & Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs), have made recommendations for recruitment to over 1.34 lakh posts. These include 4,399 posts to be filled up by UPSC, 13,995 by SSC and 1.16 lakh by RRBs.Besides, SSC, RRBs, department of posts and defence ministry had commenced the process for filling up of an additional 3,41,907 vacant posts.Singh told the Elders that ministries and departments of Government of India had been advised to take advance action for reporting vacancy position with respect to direct recruitment (DR) posts to the concerned recruitment agencies i.e. UPSC and SSC etc, for filling up of such vacancies in a timely manner.Recently, in January 2020, all Ministries/Departments of Central Government were requested to take time-bound action to fill the existing vacancies in their own offices and also their attached/ subordinate offices.