Governor ESL Narasimhan has directed the officials to complete all formalities on all key issues of State Reorganization by May 15.
He directed the officials to complete the process well before June 2, the deadline fixed for formation of two new states and elected governments to be put in place.
Chief Secretary Dr PK Mohanty and other senior officers made a detailed presentation to the Governor on the State Reorganization. This included key issues, timelines and action plan being implemented by various departments at Raj Bhavan on Saturday. The Principal Secretary, Finance gave a presentation on the employee allocation issues, guidelines, state advisory committees, and All India Service officers’ allocation. All the employee allocation would be taken up strictly according to the guidelines by the State Advisory Committee, which would be constituted by the Central Government.
The Principal Secretary, Finance presented the details of financial assets allocation and how they are geared up for ensuring that both the successor states start functioning smoothly from the appointed day. The Principal Secretary, Finance made a presentation about the activities which are common to all departments like copying of files and maintaining a record room, movable and fixed assets division, training institutions, laws and court cases, IT infrastructure management.
The officials have informed that all the files will be indexed and categorized and copies will be made available to both the governments. It is also informed that all important files, records will be digitalized and electronic copies would be readied for easy storage and retrieval. The Governor advised the Chief Secretary and other senior officials to complete the entire work before May second week in a systematic, fair and transparent way. He emphasized that as far as common man is concerned, all the services which they were receiving now, should continue without any disruption.
He also ordered to pay particular attention to the smooth functioning of the public distribution system, various pension payments, and supply of seeds to the farming community.
Other important State Reorganization issues related to Companies and Corporations, Training institutions, Energy, will be presented before the Governor on Monday forenoon at Raj Bhavan, said the Chief Secretary.
Spl. Chief Secretary to Governor Dr. N. Ramesh Kumar, Spl. Chief Secretary, Planning S.P. Tucker, Prl. Secretary, Finance, Ajay Kallam, Dr. P.V. Ramesh, Dr. Sambasiva Rao, Premchandra Reddy, K. Ramakrishna Rao from Finance department and B. Venkatesham from the States Reorganization Cell attended the review meeting.