The cabinet has taken a slew of decisions during its meeting on Wednesday, including bringing the central paramilitary force officers and jawans in the State to impart training to the state disaster response force (SDRF) personnel and fixed the limit for getting relief on some stamp duty relief to the women of the state. Besides it increased the retirement age 65 years for the ayurvedic faculty as well.
The chief secretary has been asked to ensure that the price of mined materials is kept under control in consultation with the district magistrate.
It is learnt that CAPF officers would come on deputation to the state for six months or one year against the vacant posts of SDRF, as per the cabinet decision. At least, 20 percent of the trainers would be brought to the state on deputation.
Cabinet has also changed the name of food and civil supply department to food, civil supply and consumer affairs department. The proposal had been earlier mooted by the secretariat administration (SAD) in view of the Centre having already changed the nomenclature of the department and having asked the state governments to follow suit. Cabinet has also given its nod to the proposal of the technical category posts in the directorate treasury data centre being filled through outsourcing. However, it has provided for filing the vacant posts in the National Information Centre (NIC) through deputation.Besides, cabinet has decided to give Rs 50,000 as grants to the freedom fighters during the weddings of their granddaughters’ marriages.
Cabinet has also decided to create new posts in the directorate treasury, pension and emolument under centre training and research in financial administration. As per the new decision, the administrative departments of the training institution centres in the financial administration based in Dehradun would have one post each of assistant director, accountant, assistant accountant, regular, mess in-charge and institute campus in-charge and computer operator aside from the four posts of office assistants and two of training assistants being filled through outsourcing.
Cabinet has decided to give some relief to the women regarding stamp duty. As per the order, if a woman purchases immovable property worth upto Rs 25 lakh she would get 25 percent relief on the stamp duty. It has also been decided that she can avail the benefit twice in her life time.