In Haryana, link officers will take over the charge of the departments in absence of their fellow officers to ensure that work does not suffer in the State.
“In order to ensure smooth functioning of the Departments/Boards/Corporations in the absence of the IAS/HCS officers being on leave/training/tour/election duty or away for more than five days due to any other reason or in the event of vacancy due to retirement/transfer of officer, the work will be looked after by link officers,” stated the orders issued by Chief Secretary office on Tuesday.
The link officer will look after the work of link Department of Administrative Secretary, Heads of Departments/Managing Directors in Haryana. The officers will inform the link officer before proceeding on leave/training/tour/election duty.
The CS office has also issued the list of link officers appointed for various Departments/Board/Corporations in Haryana.
The orders stated, “Divisional Commissioner will assign the additional charge of the IAS/HCS officers other than Deputy Commissioner and Additional Deputy Commissioner to any other IAS/HCS officers of respective district upto 15 days and if the period of absence is more than 15 days, the proposal for posting or giving additional charge of any other IAS/HCS officer will be sent to the Chief Secretary’s office.”
“During the absence of the Deputy Commissioner, the Additional Deputy Commissioner-cum-CEO, DRDA of the respective district will look after the work of the DC,” it stated.