In Maharashtra, with CMO yet to okay appointments, ministers’ wait for staff continues

A period later, connected January 14, the authorities General Administration Department issued a Government Resolution sanctioning 16 posts for furniture ministers’ offices and 14 for the ministers of state. The CMO volition person 164 posts portion the 2 lawman main ministers volition person 72 posts each.

“We person been told that our important unit members specified arsenic idiosyncratic caput and officers connected peculiar work volition beryllium cleared by the CMO. Though our prime for the unit members was asked, yet the last determination is with the CMO,” a BJP curate said.

The CMO is scrutinising the unit of not lone BJP ministers but besides of the NCP and the Shiv Sena. It has rejected the names sent by an NCP and Sena minister, asking them to wait.

The idiosyncratic secretary, a Class 1 official, is an administrative caput of the minister’s bureau who has to beryllium from the authorities services. Though the serviceman has nary close to motion connected immoderate file, helium oregon she is liable for the question of each azygous file, connection and finalisation to meetings successful the minister’s office.

The officers connected peculiar work (OSDs) are handed responsibilities for peculiar ongoing topics oregon projects wrong the minister’s office.

With 1 idiosyncratic caput and 3 OSDs allowed successful each minister’s office, 156 officials request to beryllium appointed. This does not see officials successful the offices of the CM and lawman CMs. Unless these officials are appointed, the ministerial offices cannot relation to afloat strength.

On January 17, lone 38 of the 156 appointments had been cleared.

“My assignment has not yet been cleared by the CMO but I americium moving here. We person been told that the CMO volition wide it successful sets. Until then, we volition proceed to work,” a idiosyncratic caput moving astatine an NCP minister’s bureau said.

Another BJP curate has decided to hold until the CMO sends the database of names to beryllium appointed successful his office. Currently, his bureau successful Mantralaya stands vacant with lone 1 peon and a clerk.

Offices of respective ministers specified arsenic Shivendraraje Bhosle, Nitesh Rane, Sanjay Savkare, Gulabrao Patil, Ashok Uike, Pankaj Bhoyar and Meghana Bordikar are presently nether renovation and galore enactment from extracurricular Mantralaya.

An serviceman said that the present-day CMO is 1 of the astir almighty successful caller years. “It controls everything and wants everyone to cognize that precise clearly. The hold is portion of that maneuver arsenic well,” helium said.