pune the pune municipal corporation pmc has finalized the institute of banking personnel selection ibps for its recruitment drive the civic administration will start the recruitment drive in this week the whole process of recruitment will be carried out by the ibps and the final merit list will be made available to the pmc for recruitment said sachin ithape of pmcs eshtablishments department he said that the exam will be held through online mode seven centres have been finalised for this exam pmc is expecting around 5 lakh applications for this drive it is biggest drive since 2012nearly 500 employees will be recruited in this drive staff members for health firebrigade and accounts departments will be recruited in this drive the department heads have been asked to provide the details about the staff requirements the vacancies will be announced accordinglythe data of the civic administration states that pmc is working with half of its total strength over 7700 posts out of 16000 are vacant the recruitment from grade i to iv employees was pending for years said a civic officialaccording to the pmcs data the civic administration has to fill up 4700 posts through direct recruitment process while nearly 3000 posts have to be filled through promotion