Several decisions were taken at the State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at the Mantralay here on Friday.
The Cabinet decided that doctors would take voluntary retirement only after 30 years of service, fixed post-graduate Ayurveda students' scholarship and renamed the Horticulture department as Horticulture and Food Processing Department. It also approved the State Road Security Policy, 2015.
The minimum period of service required for doctors working with the Public Health and Family Welfare Department to seek voluntary retirement has been raised from 25 to 30 years. The Cabinet decided that such doctors whose actual posting was held as medical officer would be able to take voluntary retirement from service after completing 30 years of their service like other Government officers and they would also be eligible for senior grade category. Such doctors would be eligible for pay scale of Rs 37,400, grade pay Rs 8700 from July 1, 2014.
Medical officers promoted as specialists with gross salary would be eligible for next pay scale after six years.
The Cabinet also fixed the scholarship of post-graduation students studying in the Government Ayurveda colleges. Scholarship of Rs 21,000 would be given in the first year, Rs 22,000 in the second year and Rs 23,000 would be given for the third year.
The Cabinet also decided to enter into a separate Memorandum of Understanding to transfer 5.87 acre of Airport Authority land to the aviation directorate. Permission was given to create 412 posts for the nine Eklavya Model Residential Higher Secondary Schools. The expenses over the infrastructure development other than that received from the Government of India would be borne by the State Government and the name of the Horticulture department would now be Horticulture and Food Processing Department.
The cabinet also approved the State Road Security Policy 2015 and authorized the Home Department tomake necessary changes in it in the future.