In one of the most significant decisions, the Cabinet in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday put a stamp of approval on direct recruitment of 553 medical officers for Ayurvedic, Homoeopathic and Unani medicine in hospitals located in remote regions and across insurgency infested Bastar region.
The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh at the Mantralaya in Naya Raipur decided that the recruitments for aforesaid posts would be segregated from the Chhattisgarh State Public Service Commission to take up direct recruitment of the medical officers.
The move is expected to ensure sufficient manpower in the hospitals in the remote pockets with 496 posts to be filled up from Ayurvedic, 31 from the Homoeopathy and 26 from the Unani medical officers. The other key decision taken at the meeting was to provide bank guarantee worth rs 26.26 crore to national finance and development corporations for provision of loans to the families of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes besides Minorities and Cleanliness workers for taking up various vocations.
Out of the State Government’s total quantum of loan guarantee of rs 26.26 crore, rs 13 crore guarantee would be for the National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation and rs 8 crore for National Scheduled Castes Finance and Development Corporation. This apart, the loan guarantee of rs 3.26 crore would be offered to National Cleanliness Workers Finance and Development Corporation and rs 2 crore as guarantee for National Minorities Finance and Development Corporation.
The Cabinet also offered in-principle approval to the annual budget outlay of Chhattisgarh for the fiscal year 2014-15. The budget size is estimated to be of about rs 45,000 crore and is expected to be tabled in the Chhattisgarh Assembly on February 8 this year. The Cabinet also decided to keep its Prohibition Policy intact for 2014-15.