Srinagar: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, will be chairing State Cabinet on Monday, and postings will be done in the civil administration and vacant posts in the bureaucratic set up will be filled.
“Cabinet meet will be held at Civil Secretariat, Srinagar on Monday,” sources said.
Many important posts in different departments, in valley have been lying vacant, and cabinet is likely to take the call on them. “Chief Engineer Irrigation and Flood Control, Regional Transport Office Srinagar Kashmir are some of the departments that will be discussed,” sources said.
Farooq Ahmad Rather, Regional Transport Officer, Kashmir, was transferred on September 20 and posted as Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Watershed Management Programme, J&K, against an available vacancy.
“Irrigation and Flood Control Department Kashmir is headless for the last two weeks and will also be on list,” sources said.
The previous Chief Engineer, Irrigation and Flood Control, got retired on September 30 and since then government has failed to appoint the new head of the department.
“The dredging work has been severely affected as we don’t have Chief Engineer who could issue orders for various important decisions,” an official of the Irrigation and Flood Control Department said.
The official said that presently the Chief Engineer Public Health Engineering was holding the additional charge of Irrigation and Flood Control Department.
If sources are to be believed, ‘there was tussle between the PDP and BJP over appointment of Chief Engineer Irrigation and Flood Control Department. The BJP wants that Chief Engineer should be from Jammu while the PDP wants that a Kashmiri should be appointed there.’
“Cabinet may also fill up the post of secretary tourism, floriculture, parks and gardens. Similarly sources said that departments, including revenue, disaster management, relief rehabilitation and reconstruction and science and technology may also be filled,” they said.
