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Saturday 29 March 2014

Settle All Key Issues by May 15: Governor

Published: 23rd March 2014 09:02 AM
Last Updated: 23rd March 2014 09:02 AM
Governor ESL Narasimhan has directed officials to complete all formalities on all key issues of state’s reorganisation by May 15.
He asked the officials to complete the process well before June 2, the deadline fixed for formation of two new states and elected governments to be put in place.
The chief secretary and other senior officers made a detailed presentation to the governor at the Raj Bhavan on Saturday on the state reorganisation work. This included key issues, time lines and action plan being implemented by various departments.
Principal secretary (finance) PV Ramesh gave a presentation on the employee allocation issues, guidelines, state advisory committees, and all-India service officers’ allocation. All the employee allocation would be taken up strictly according to the guidelines by the state advisory committee, which will be constituted by the central government, the officials informed the governor. Ramesh presented  details of financial assets allocation and how they are geared up for ensuring that both the successor states start functioning smoothly from the appointed day.
He also made a presentation about the activities which are common to all departments like copying of files and maintaining a record room, movable and fixed assets division, training institutions, laws and court cases, IT infrastructure management. The officials have said that all the files will be indexed and categorised and copies will be made available to both the governments.
It is also informed that all important files, records will be digitised and electronic copies readied for easy storage and retrieval. The governor advised the chief secretary and other senior officials to complete the entire work before May second week in a systematic, fair and transparent way. He emphasised that as far as the common man is concerned, all the services, which they were receiving now, should continue without any disruption. He also ordered to pay particular attention to the smooth functioning of the public distribution system, various pension payments and supply of seeds to the farming community.
Other important state reorganisation issues related to companies and corporations, training institutions, energy will be presented before the governor on Monday, said chief secretary PK Mohanty.

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