800 group D posts in new civic bodies slashed
New Delhi: The leaders at the three new corporations will have to make do with less number of helping hands, with the Directorate of Local Bodies slashing up to 800 group D posts, including those of drivers, peons and security guards. DLB has abolished 400 posts for peons, 150 for drivers and another 125 for security guards. In the same order, however, it has created 300 posts for A and B category officials, amounting to an additional annual salary expenditure of Rs 25 crore.
Following the order, Mahinder Nagpal, leader of House in the north corporation, has got only one peon and one steno to manage his work. The leader of House of the erstwhile MCD used to get three peons, two stenographers, a personal assistant and a driver. Nagpal is yet to get an official car and a driver. “We are already running short of staff with the trifurcation of municipal bodies. How can DLB do this?” said Nagpal.
“It will hamper work in our corporation. DLB will have to explain the logic behind the same,” demands Subhash Arya, leader of House in the south corporation.
DLB director R K Srivastava was not available for comments. However, a senior officer said on the condition of the anonymity that “the decision was probably taken to solve the problem of ghost employees”. MCD had allegedly caused a loss of about Rs 500 crore to the public exchequer in the last five years by paying salaries to hundreds of its employees who had not even been appointed.
At MCD, mayors were given five peons, two drivers and several support staff. Following the trifurcation, there are three mayors, three commissioners, at least a dozen of additional and deputy commissioners and around 50 departmental heads.
At the senior level, DLB has added 300 posts, including 30 in the engineering department, 85 in town planning, 22 in health, 14 in horticulture, 49 in community services, 27 in information technology and 47 in the audit departments.
Source: Times of India
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