 Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 2: The State Administrative Council (SAC) which met here today under the Chairmanship of Governor accorded approval for the creation of 495 posts of various categories in different departments in both Leh and Kargil districts.
These include posts of 12 Directors, 4 Chief Engineers, 4 Joint Directors, Chief Conservator of Forest, Regional Wildlife Warden and other senior positions.
This was informed by Principal Secretary, Planning, Development & Monitoring Department, Rohit Kansal, who is also the State Government Spokesman, at a press conference here this evening.
Kansal said that over 470 more posts at different levels and belonging to a variety of departments have been created to support the Directorates and Chief Engineer Offices that will be now established in the Ladakh division.
He disclosed that the Directorates which will be established in Ladakh Division with their Headquarteres at Leh include Chief Engineer, R&B (with additional charge of PMGSY), Chief Engineer, Mechanical, Director, Health Services, Director, Urban Local bodies, Director, Industries & Commerce, Regional Transport Officer, Chief Conservator of Forests, Director, Animal Husbandry(with additional charge of Sheep Husbandry), Joint Director, Handicrafts (with additional charge of Handlooms), Joint Director, Hospitality and Protocol (with a Dy Director to be stationed at Kargil), Director, Accounts & Treasuries, Regional Director, State Pollution Control Board.
Kansal further said that while Directorates to be established in Ladakh Division and Headquartered at Kargil include Chief Engineer, PHE (with additional charge of I&FC), Chief Engineer, PDD, Director School Education, Director, Rural Development, Director, Social Welfare, Additional Registrar Cooperatives, Director, Tourism, Director, Horticulture (with additional charge of Floriculture), Director Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Joint Director, Information (with Dy Director to be stationed at Leh), Regional Wild Life Warden and Joint Director Youth Services and Sports.
He said that the committee formed for the purpose in its recommendations has emphasized that the placement of a particular office at a district is on purely administrative basis and will in no way deprive the public of any of the districts from the due services of the offices which are not based in that district.
The State Administrative Council too has directed that Directors and HoDs of Ladakh Division will conduct regular tours of both the districts in the Division, Kansal added.
Details of posts to be created as a result of the SAC decision under Part (I) include Divisional Commissioner, Addl. Commissioner, Revenue Attorney, Deputy Director (P&S), Personal Assistant, Section Officer, Assistant Accounts Officer, Reader (NT), Saddar Mohasib, Head Assistant, Jr. Scale Stenographer, Statistical Assistant, Accounts Assistant, Sr. Assistant, Junior Assistant, Driver and Orderly while under Part (II) Inspector General of Police, SSP/SP, CPO, Dy SP, PRO/Spl. Asstt, Assistant Accounts Officer, Inspector, Sub Inspector, ASI, Statistical Assistant, HC, Accounts Assistant, Constable, Driver and Follower. |
