Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 28: To bring about functional and organizational improvement in Administrative Departments and ensure more efficiency in their working, Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal released the ‘Secretariat Induction Manual’ here today.
Describing the Secretariat Induction Manual as an important document, Chief Secretary said that over the years mandate of the departments has undergone major changes and it has become important that every department is suitably supported with institutional structure, capacities and competencies to perform policy formulation and programme implementation functions with due regards to the emerging concepts of devolution and delegation.
Madhav Lal said that after six months of detailed reviewing of the entire organizational structure of Administrative Departments, several key areas requiring urgent and sustained attention were identified and addressed through the ‘Secretariat Induction Manual’.
He said that a lot of effort has gone into preparing the manual and highlighted the significance of continuous updating of the document to make it dynamic and useful for future course of action as well. “The Services and Establishment Division of GAD is required to regularly update the Website version of the manual as a part of it’s success indicator under the Results Framework Document(RFD)”, he added.
The Manual will be useful for the personnel likely to be transferred from field offices to Secretariat. It will also form the basis for a more rational allocation of individuals in the departments and to achieve to the extent possible, a better match between the qualification and experience of the individuals and works allocated to them.
On the occasion, Chief Secretary directed for hosting the Manual on the General Administration Department (GAD) Website for easy access to all the officials. He also asked the Commissioner Secretary GAD to issue a circular in this regard.
Commissioner Secretary GAD Sheikh Mushtaq Ahmad, Special Secretary GAD G. S. Chib, Special Secretary to Chief Secretary R. K. Verma, Additional Secretary GAD Simrandeep Singh and other officers were present during the release function.
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