"The committee is of the view that the number of vacancies existing in CBI is alarming. Such large number of vacancies will affect the operational efficiency of the organisation," said the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Law and Justice tabled in Rajya Sabha.

The CBI had earlier apprised the committee that delay in holding Departmental Promotion Committees (DPCs) in UPSC is one of the reasons for vacancies existing in the organisation.

Taking note of UPSC's argument that not even a single case of CBI vacancy is pending with UPSC and that CBI had failed to intimate the Commission of their requirements inspite of several reminders, the Committee blamed the Personnel Ministry and asked it to devise better coordination between both the agencies.

According to the report, CBI has vacancies of 30.08 per cent, 66.2 per cent and 58.8 per cent in the ranks of Prosecution, Technical and Deputy Superintendent of police respectively.

Analysis of the figures stated in the report shows that the vacancies in investigating ranks within the CBI, which had registered 940 cases in 2007 including some very high profile is a staggering 28.5 per cent.