Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 17: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today questioned the move by the Prime Minister’s Office to put on hold the appointment of private secretaries to Union Ministers, saying the Ministers need to be trusted about appointing their personal staff.
“A strong PMO is one thing but if a Minister can’t be trusted to choose a private secretary how can he/she be trusted to run a ministry?” Omar wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.Com.
The appointment of private secretaries to three Union Ministers, including Home Minister Rajnath Singh, has been put on hold with the decision being attributed to a circular from Personnel Department that appointments to a minister’s personal staff, including private secretaries and officers on special duty, should be cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet.
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