General Administration Department English news | General Administration Department, Latest News & Live Updates in English | English News (Latest English News) at Lokmattimes.com

The Chhattisgarh government has taken several important decisions to cut back on government expenditures and to ensure optimal utilisation of resources available for development-oriented works as the nationwide lockdown has adversely affected the state's revenue collection."As per the decisions, creating new posts, transfer, orgsing meetings inexpensive hotels, foreign tours and purchase of new vehicles has been prohibited and instructions have been given to take economic measures for recruitment on vacancies, promotion and annual salary increment," an official release said."As per the instructions issued by state government's Finance Department in the context, recruitment on any and all vacancies, except vacancies of direct recruitment and appointment on compassionate grounds, can be done only after taking permission from the Finance Department. For posts that were earlier approved by the Finance Department but recruitment on these posts was pending, the concerned department will have to take permission again before recruiting on these posts," it added.The state's Finance Department has directed all the departments to follow the standard procedure for regular promotion, but transfer due to promotion should be avoided by providing temporary upgrade on the same post in the same place."Payment of arrears as a result of promotion-up-gradation will remain pending till the next orders of the Finance Department. To control the establishment expenses of departments, the state government has banned creating new posts in all the government departments, public undertakings and municipal bodies with immediate effect. Under special circumstances, new posts can be created after taking permission from Finance Department," the release said."As per the transfer policy issued by General Administration Department, transfer of officials and employees has been prohibited. Keeping in view the additional expenses caused due to transfer of employees, departments are expected to keep the transfers to the minimum possible. If urgently required, transfer on one's own expenses should be given preference," it stated.Other measures include banning of foreign tours, not allowing government officials to travel in business class of flights and first-class compartments of trains under government expenses."Unnecessary official tours without approval from competent authority will remain prohibited. Departments have been directed to orgse minimum possible meetings and to curtail the expenses on events such as conferences, seminars and government programmes. Urgent meetings-programmes should be orgsed in government buildings instead of expensive hotels. As far as possible, meetings should be orgsed via video conferencing and webinar," the release said.It is stated in the order that departments should commence the extremely important schemes in the current fiscal year itself and the existing ones should be reviewed separately. Departments have been directed to end the schemes that are irrelevant in the current scenario.According to the release, purchase of new vehicles is completely banned in the fiscal year 2020-21 and only the vehicles required for essential services can be purchased after taking permission from the Finance Department."Annual salary increment payable to state government employees from July 1, 2020, and January 1, 2020, has been postponed until further notice. However, this order will not be applicable to government employees retiring before January 1, 2021, and July 1, 2021," it further said.( With inputs from ANI )

General Administration DepartmentFOLLOW

General administration department, Latest News

The government has asked all the authorities competent to provide real-time data of domicile certificates which are being issued offline on its online platform to ensure accuracy in the data collection, read an official release by Department of Infor ...

Srinagar, Aug 4 Four per cent of the total seats in professional institutes in Jammu and Kashmir have ... ...

The Government of Maharashtra issued a government resolution (GR) directing officials to use Marathi as the language for official communication. ...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday announced that Manoj Dwivedi has been appointed as Chief Secretary of General Administration Department. ...

Odisha Industries Secretary Hemant Sharma has been relieved of the duty of supervision of procurement of all essential pharmaceutical ... ...

The General Administration Department (GAD) at the Delhi Secretariat has been sealed for sanitisation after an employee tested ... ...

The General Administration Department (GAD) at Delhi Secretariat has been sealed for sanitisation after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus, said the officials on Saturday. ...

The Chhattisgarh government has taken several important decisions to cut back on government expenditures and to ensure optimal utilisation of resources available for development-oriented works as the nationwide lockdown has adversely affected the sta ...