Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 16:
Striving to ensure proper and purposeful implementation of numerous Central-sponsored development programmes the Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has reportedly instructed Ministers concerned to keep close a tab on heads of departments of their respective ministries.
According to informed source, the CM had asked his ministerial colleagues to closely monitor whether relevant departments are sincerely executing welfare schemes being taken up under the financial provision of NLCPR, NEC, Special Plan Assistance etc.
The Chief Minister is said to have yesterday circulated instructions to the Ministers to process appropriate measures for penalising officials/heads of department found to be derelicting assigned tasks and to reflect such negligence, if any, in service records of the responsible officials.
The crackdown seems to be a fallout of the union Planning Commission�s missive to the State Government to hold back funds, as the source disclosed that the Centre had insisted on producing utilization certificate on schemes provided to the State under the SPA within December failing which the second instalment would not be sanctioned.
It is pertinent to mention that a similar instruction had been conveyed by the Centre that insist upon periodical revision of projects under the SPA at the Chief Minister as well as the level of department concerned.
In another development, the source confided that on completion of the Manipur Government Employees� List (MGEL), being worked out with the technical assistance of NIC, record verification of the employees would ensue.
maintaining that till date MGEL exercise had been completed regarding employees of Education Department while such preparation for Revenue Department is still at the nascent stage, the source also pegged strength of State Government to a little over 52,000. The MGEL exercise had trimmed down employees strength of Education Department from 16,000 to 12,000.