Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Imphal, May 02 2010:
"Agitating government employees particularly in the Manipur Secretariat offices who were supposed to streamline official works for the state have really become useless lot as of now", fumed the Chief Minister O Ibobi today.
The Chief Minister said this while interacting with the mediapersons at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), Imphal to take stock of the developmental scenario of the Institute prior to the proposed visit of Medical Council of India (MCI) team.
Unsatisfied with the job performances under-taken by the agitating secretariat employees, the chief minister said that too much of staffs overloading the offices for agitation rather than performing their jobs, is a serious cause of concern for governing the state.
"All employees from the high posts to lowest grades including Manipur Civil Service (MCS) officers and section officers (SO) got to gather to protest, disturbing the normal functions and protocols of the Secretariat norms", added O.Ibobi Singh.
He further criticized that some of the employees in the higher posts could not even write a correct English sentence.
He then said the government will fill some of the vacant posts by recalling those pensioners particularly those who were holding secretary level jobs including under-secretary, principle secretary etc.
The state government will opt for streamlining the Secretariat service rule at the earliest, the chief minister asserted.
On the visit of MCI official team's visit to Manipur, Ibobi Singh informed that they will be arriving in Imphal in the month of May probably in the first week to inspect the JNIMS infrastructures-to be on par with the given guidelines of the authority.
Crossing his fingers, in a religious tone, he said, "We (the people of Manipur) should pray to God that the MCI give us (recommendation) what we wanted all this while".
On the JNIMS complex beautifications, the chief minister said that the government will rope in experts including from forest department and horticulture department.