At least 300 Assam Police officers, who’re “habitual drinkers”, might be given the choice of voluntary retirement, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma introduced on Sunday. According to him, these police personnel drink too closely and that’s adversely affecting their service. People have severe complaints towards such police personnel, he added. Sarma mentioned that the process has already began, and new hiring might be achieved to fill these 300 positions. “Around 300 officers and staff in the state police department are habitual drinkers, and their bodies have suffered as a result. For them, the government maintains a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS). They will be given that,” he mentioned. He additional mentioned that the foundations have been already there for such “offenders”. “It is an old rule, but we had not implemented it earlier,” Sarma, who additionally holds the Home portfolio, informed reporters on the sidelines of a programme right here.
The Chief Minister additional claimed that he’s additionally making an attempt to decentralise the federal government, and he has began the process for opening places of work with energy and tasks that have been as soon as held by the Deputy Commissioners` workplace in every of the state`s 126 Assembly constituencies. “We are working to make the Deputy Commissioners` office accessible in all areas in an assembly constituency so that people don`t have to drive to the district headquarters for many official works,” he mentioned. “The Deputy Commissioners will look after law and order, and they will be given different responsibilities,” he added. The Assam authorities is mulling a serious overhaul of the administration and is ready to transform every district within the state to administrative and financial items.
The huge alteration within the state administration will start because the BJP authorities within the state led by Sarma is ready to finish two years in May. The Chief Minister has known as for a three-day assembly with the District Commissioners to debate the revamp concern. It has been scheduled to happen between May 12 and 14 in Tinsukia district.
