The State Government has decided to cover women and Divyangs belonging to unreserved category under the quota meant for jobs and educational purposes. As per the norms set for horizontal reservation the sections would be provided with five and four per cent quota, respectively.
Informing about the decision taken by the Cabinet on Tuesday, Home Secretary SKG Rahate said that the provision was in place under a resolution. “The Cabinet assented to the proposal providing five per cent reservation to women and four per cent to Divyangs coming from general category. The reservation would be given within the 50 per cent unreserved seats arising in any vacancy etc,” said Rahate. Notably similar provisions are already in place into the reserved categories.
This apart the Cabinet also set the norms to recover additional payments done to any Government employee due to faulty pay fixation during the service. The decision has been taken in the light of a recent Supreme Court order given in this regard. Matters coming would be handled on individual basis varying from case to case.
“The Cabinet also sanctioned grant of Rs 103.31 crore for the infrastructure facilities such as road, power, water supply for the Core Capital Area coming up at HEC. In another important decision the Cabinet decided to regularise eight persons working on contractual basis at Jharkhand Bhawan at New Delhi in the wake of the Jharkhand High Court order,” said Rahate. Similarly, nine contractual staffs at District Disaster Management Department have been given extension for one more year.
Also, decision to bring the rules to register contactors with Water Resources Department in accordance with Road Construction Department and several others has been taken. Amendments into appointment rule of mining engineers have also been done by revising the minimum pass marks and few others. At the same time dearness allowance of the State Government employees and pensioners has been raised from 7 to 9 per cent which would put additional financial burden in the tune of Rs 350 crore annually.
The Cabinet has also handed over job to setup and maintain Software Technology Park of India center in Ranchi to STPI under the Center on nomination basis along with the draft of the MoU to be signed. The STPI would be paid Rs 50 lakh annually for five years duration.