Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has decided to regularise the services of Junior Panchayat Secretaries (JPSs).
The CM directed the Principal Secretary of the Panchayat Raj department, Sandeep Kumar Sultania, to finalise procedures to regularise the services of Junior Panchayat Secretaries.
The CM suggested that committees should be set up under the supervision of Collectors at the district level to evaluate the performance of Junior Panchayat Secretaries.
The District Collector along with Additional Collector (Local Bodies), District Forest Officer, and the SP or DCP will be members of this committee. A secretary-level or HoD-level officer will act as an observer.
At the state level, a committee will be constituted headed by the Principal Secretary of the Panchayat Raj Department.
The proposal forwarded by the district-level committee will be examined by the state-level committee. The state-level committee will forward the report to the Chief Secretary.
In some Gram Panchayats in the State, Collectors have appointed Junior Panchayat Secretaries on a temporary basis. The CM ordered to start the process to appoint new Junior Panchayat Secretaries in these posts as well in the next stage of regularisation.
Ministers T. Harish Rao, Talasani Srinivas Yadav, MLCs Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, Despati Srinivas, Padi Kaushik Reddy, MLAs Jeevan Reddy, Balka Suman, CM’s Chief Adviser Somesh Kumar, CM’s Principal Secretary Narsing Rao, Chief Adviser Rajeev Sharma, Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari, Panchayat Raj Principal Secretary Sandeep Kumar Sultania, Special Chief Secretary of Finance Ramakrishna Rao, Revenue Principal Secretary Naveen Mittal, CM’s Secretary Bhupal Reddy, Information Department Special Commissioner Ashok Reddy and others were present at the meeting.
