Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, June 5: The Government has decided that only profit making Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) would be identified for appointment as Chairpersons/ Vice Chairpersons while those already making losses would be left from the purview of political appointments.
Official sources engaged with the task of identification of Corporations/Boards, which would have political Chairpersons/Vice Chairpersons as per a decision reached in the Co-ordination Committee meeting of National Conference and Congress, told the Excelsior that the Government has set a process into motion for identification of “profit making PSUs”.
“The process (to identify the PSUs) for rehabilitation of the leaders of Alliance partners with the status of Cabinet Ministers and Ministers of State has been initiated. A Government team has been assigned the task of preparing the list of profit making PSUs and submit it to the Government in the shortest possible time,” sources said.
They added that the Government wanted to take a decision on “political appointments” at the earliest as “very little time” was left for them to take “advantage of their positions” in their Assembly constituencies with hardly a year and a half left for the Assembly elections.
They said the Government has made it categorically clear to the team assigned with the task of identifying the PSUs for `political appointments’ not to name any Corporation/Board in its report, which were running in the losses.
Sources said the Government was of the view that only those Corporations/Boards, which were running in profit, should have Chairpersons/ Vice Chairpersons so that the public undertakings were in a position to bear extra burden, which the loss making bodies would be unable to do.
Pointing out that the Government team could take a little over a fortnight to complete the task of identification of profit making Corporations/ Boards, which could afford the appointments of Chairpersons/ Vice Chairpersons, they said the posts would be shared on the basis of 50:50 between National Conference and Congress.
Both the political parties wanted to rehabilitate their leaders including some of those, who were sulking in the aftermath of January 15, 2013 reshuffle/expansion in the Council of Ministry. Some others could also head the Corporations/Board with the status of Cabinet Minister or Minister of State to help them in an advantageous position when they go to the people again during the Assembly elections.
Sources said only after the completion of entire exercise, the two parties would submit their nominations for appointments as Chairpersons/Vice Chairpersons of Corporations/Boards.
Worthwhile to mention here that the National Conference-Congress Co-ordination Committee meeting held in Srinagar, the summer capital of the State, had given its nod last month to a proposal for appointment of Chairpersons/Vice Chairpersons in the Corporations/ Boards to adjust leaders of the two coalition partners.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel