Our Correspondent
Kohima | March 29
The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) is manned by 1866 regular officers/staff and 1970 work charged employees as of January 2017.
The personnel bio-data such as name, father’s name, native village, designation/rank, date of appointment, date of birth, place of posting, date of posting to the present office, basic pay scale and total monthly emolument are stored in computer record which enable the department to update their status at any point of time and also help to assess fund requirement for establishment cost from time to time.
This was stated in the annual administrative report 2016-17 of PHED tabled in the floor of the House on Tuesday by PHED minister Chotisuh Sazo.
“This also help to identify the numbers of staff in each village, town and under each office with their tenure in that office, and also tribe wise census in the department,” the report stated.
All regular employees posses government photo indentify cards, while work charged employees in the department are issued Photo identity cards containing complete bio data with a Unique Code Number.
This data-base help prepare category wise seniority, date of retirement etc. All these personnel information are now managed through the state Personnel Management Information System (PMIS) of P&AR department.
The report stated that all new appointments, promotions and service regularization etc pertaining to Grade III and IV staff (Except those with pay scale of Rs. 4125.00 and above) are done through a Screening Committee with formal approval of the Government. Regular vacancies/apparent vacancies are filled up in accordance with the standing government order. “New appointment of work charged/ad-hoc/contract employees have been stopped completely by the department since 1995 as per government ban order,” the report added.
