Kohima, March 1 (DIPR): The Nagaland State Government has decided that the Post Creation & Upgradation Committee will be replaced by Manpower Rationalization Committee (MRC) to be headed by Chief Secretary and the Administrative Heads of Planning, Finance, P&AR, Home and Commissioner, Nagaland as members.
The Upgradation Committee under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary was set up in 2001 in order to streamline procedures relating to upgradation posts. The Committee on Upgradation of posts constituted was entrusted with the responsibilities of examining/scrutinizing the cases for creation of posts also.
An office memorandum from the P & AR Department stated that there is a problem of bloated strength of employees in several Departments severely limiting the scope of creation of new posts. At the same time, there exists a need for creation of certain posts to enable discharge of new functions in those Departments as well as in other Departments. The present mechanism in form of Committee on Upgradation and Creation of Posts is not able to address these issues effectively. A holistic approach is required which focuses on reduction of non¬essential manpower for minimizing wasteful expenditure and allowing fiscal space for creation of posts to meet the emerging needs.
As such, from now on, proposals for upgradation or creation of posts will be examined by the MRC whilst looking at the existing manpower planning, re-deployment from the existing posts available, redundant posts and recommendation of the Cadre Review, if any, and thereafter make its recommendations. Proposals for upgradation and creation of posts should be continued to be submitted as per the prescribed formats which are enclosed as Annexure-1 and II along with the details of manpower rationalization exercise carried out by the Department concerned.
