The State Cabinet today went ahead appointing officials into the cell formed to indentify cases pending in different courts of the State for more than five years. The decision has been taken in the light of a recommendation made by the Jharkhand High Court.
Informing about the decisions Cabinet Secretary SKG Rahate said that total three posts have been constituted into the cell to help the trials taking place quickly. “The Cabinet in the light of the recommendations made by the Jharkhand High Court has sanctioned one post of deputy registrar (judicial) to be filled by Civil Judge (senior division) level official of judicial service and two of assistant registrars (judicial) to be taken up by Civil Judge (junior division) level officials. The officials would serve into the cell formed to indentify cases pending for over five years,” said he.
Also a secretariat at the Jharkhand High Court to assist the Juvenile Justice Committee has come up and post of assistant registrar is created. The Cabinet at the same time gave three months extension to the committee probing irregularities taken place into appointments made at Jharkhand Assembly. Justice (Retd) Vikramaditya Prasad is investigating into the appointments done. Besides, a post of CEO has been formed at the State Development Council. Retired IAS officer of 1981 batch Anil Swarup was made the CEO who would be given status of a Cabinet Minister.
In a major relief to descendents of the land losers, the Cabinet authorised the tribunal formed under the provisions of land acquisition act to provide compensation up to Rs 50 lakh to the legal heirs even without having certificate issued from the competent court. Earlier the limit was Rs 10 lakh. The compensation can be paid based on the certificate issued by circle officer and after being verified by lRDC.
The Cabinet also revised the estimate for Ranchi water supply scheme (pahse-1)under AMRUT from Rs 148.06 crore to Rs 261.43 crore in order to cover the expanded area. On similar lines the estimate for Hazaribagh has also been revised from Rs 300.01 crore to Rs 407.18 crore. At the same time water supply projects for Dhanbad (Rs 148.02 crore) and for Adityapur (Rs 363.36 crore) were also given approvals.