The State Government has decided to appoint an accountant-cum-data entry operator in every gram panchayat (GP) office soon. The district Collectors have been asked to immediately complete the process, a release issued by the Panchayati Raj Department informed.
This apart, the Government has also decided to appoint 743 Junior Engineers. The Engineer-in-Chief (Civil) has been asked to send a list of eligible candidates for the purpose. These appointments would be made under the Rajiv Gandhi Panchayat Empowerment Abhiyan being implemented under the department.
Panchayati Raj Minister Kalpataru Das said that besides the above appointments, the department has also decided to establish a District Panchayat Resource Centre in every district at an expenditure of Rs 2 crore.
In the first phase, these centres would come up in nine districts, Mayurbhanj, Puri, Malkangiri, Sundargarh, Koraput, Rayagada, Ganjam, Jajpur and Sambalpur, during the current fiscal, the Minister said.