Karnataka to abolish quot;superfluousquot; posts

Announcing this, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M C Nanaiah told media persons soon after a cabinet meeting here on Tuesday, that all department heads had been asked to identify such positions, so that the process of abolishing these posts could be implemented within the next one-and-a-half year.

An in-depth study by the government had shown that unless something was done to set right the situation now, the establishment expenditure by the year 2012 to 2015 would be almost equal to the state revenue, Nanaiah said.

The decision to do away with these posts had come in the wake of the suggestion by the Cabinet sub-committee headed by Deputy ChiefMinister Siddaramaiah for identifying these 8220;superfluous positions8221; in all departments and districts, he said.

He said that various supernumerary posts that had been created over the years would also be done away with, after the officials, who are currently serving in those posts, retired.

In departments where there were more officials than work, vacancies would not be filled up after the current crop of officials retired, Nanaiah added.

Certain intermediary posts between the district administration and the state secretariat such as that of divisional commissioner and joint director would be abolished, he said. Most of these posts were found to be obstacles in the way of speedy disposal of matters pending before the state and district administration.

After the abolition of these posts 8220;papers from the districts will come directly to the Vidhana Soudha rather than through the divisional, intermediary posts8221; he added.