Gogoi asks Fince department to do away with retention of posts system

BY OUR STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, July 5: In a move which will come as a huge relief for thousands of State Government employees, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi directed the Fince Department to do away with the existing system of retention of posts.

Until now, almost all posts were deemed to have temporary status at the time of creation. Thereafter, the post had to be granted annual retention and after a period of five years or more, the posts could be granted permanent status.  Employees could draw salaries only for the period when the posts were retained either annually or permanently.

The process of annual retention of posts required proposals to be submitted from the employees’ office to the Directorates and then to be processed in the Secretariat.  At times, retention of posts could not be made immediately after the expiry of earlier retention period. Permanent retention was also, at times, delayed. This resulted in delay to draw timely salaries.

 In order to remove the difficulties faced by the employees, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi directed that the entire process may be simplified and redundant processes be removed particularly in case of  regular employees holding a sanctioned post. He directed that no employee should be denied timely salary because of the time consuming process of retention of posts. Further, he stated that the retention process was diverting office resources from more productive work for the benefit of the citizens.

As directed by Chief Minister, Fince Department has now totally revamped the entire system of retention of posts and issued new guidelines in form of an Office Memorandum. From now, all posts, both under plan & non-plan,  which were created with the prior concurrence of Planning & Development and Fince Departments will be of permanent ture and no further retention will be necessary except for a few  exceptiol cases like posts created  for only a specific period, adhoc basis etc. In effect, employee will no longer have to worry about the status of retention of their posts either in the Directorates or Secretariat and can focus on sincerely carrying out their duties.