As part of upcoming State General Election 2018, District Collector cum District Electoral Officers has imposed restriction on proceeding for leave for State Government employees based in respective districts, State Government departmental district unit employees and of all the semi-Government organisations.
Meanwhile, DEO has urged the citizens to add their names in the electoral roll, having completed 18 years of age as on January 1, 2018 have been left out till August 31. Earlier, the last date was August 21.
As per order, now the earned leave and other leave would not be sanctioned by the departmental head.
The order stated that Head of departments would forward the letter for leave only on critical conditions to the district collector. Collector office would not receive any application directly.
Class III and Class IV employees would be given casual leave for two days by the departmental head in three conditions.
The Cl leave would not be extended, the second condition is that they have to be present after the leave and third condition, if necessary for the election duty, and then the leave can be cancelled and called back for duty.
The order further States that if District electoral office or Assistant Returning Officer if issues any order or letter to those employees having gone for casual leave, then the head of department has to ensure that the letter or order reaches the concerned employee without fail.
Action would be initiated against those employees violating the norms of leave under the People’s Representation Act provisions.
Meanwhile, in Kawardha, have constituted District level Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) which would be monitoring the candidates, political parties in TV channels and cable network.
The committee has Collector and DEO Avnish Kumar Sharan, Sub-Divisional Officer Revenue Kawardha Vipul Kumar Gupta, SDO Telecom P K Bagde and citizen Basant Kumar Sharma and assistant director district public relations office A B Kashi as member secretary.