KCR Decides To Regularise JPS

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao today decided to regularise the services of the Junior Panchayat Secretaries (JPSs).

He instructed Principal Secretary of Panchayat Raj Sandeep Kumar Sultania to finalise the modalities in this regard.

The CM suggested that committees be formed at the district level under the chairmanship of the Collectors to assess the performances of the Junior Panchayat Secretaries.

Apart from the district Collector, the committees will consist of the Additional Collectors (local bodies), district forest officers, district SPs or DCP members.

A secretary-level or HOD-level officer from the State level will act as an observer.

At the State level, a committee will be constituted under the chairmanship of the Principal Secretary of the Panchayati Raj department.

The proposal sent by the District Level Committees will be examined by the State Level Committee. The State-level committee will then send a report to the Chief Secretary.

The district Collectors have appointed Junior Panchayat Secretaries on a temporary basis in some gram panchayats in the State. The CM instructed that the process of filling up new Junior Panchayat Secretaries in these places should be started at a later stage of the regularisation.

Ministers Harish Rao and Talasani Srinivas Yadav, MLCs Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, Deshapathi Srinivas and Padi Kaushik Reddy, MLAs Jeevan Reddy and Balka Suman, Chief Advisor Somesh Kumar, CM's Principal Secretary Narsing Rao, Government's Principal Advisor Rajiv Sharma, CS Shanti Kumari, Panchayat Raj Principal Secretary Sandeep Kumar Sultania, Finance Special Chief Secretary Ramakrishna Rao, Revenue Principal Secretary Naveen Mittal, Chief Minister's Secretary Bhupal Reddy, Information Department Special Commissioner Ashok Reddy and others were present.