Our Correspondent
Kohima | July 9
A government bill ‘Nagaland Government Servants (Transfer & Posting) Bill, 2009’ was moved today in the floor of the house by Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for Law & Justice. The consideration for its approval is slated to take place on July 11.
The bill, in its statement, said there are government servants who possess a combination of qualities such as professional competency, integrity, and devotion to duty which constitute the bulwark of the efficient administrative machinery of the state government. Invariably, the accomplishments and success of policies and schemes of the government for development and otherwise, is wholly dependent on the promptness and probity with which they are implemented by these officials. “It is observed, unfortunately, that a certain degree of indolence and inefficiency has permeated into the various levels of the government and therefore it has become essential that urgent measures are adopted to streamline and tone up the administration,” the bill said.
With this objective in view, the bill said, a feasible and practicable concept requires to be formulated with which efficient and dutiful government servants are suitably utilized. It stated that the state government considers it expedient to introduce a bill to transfer any government servants and to post him against any ex-cadre post in any government department, public sector, undertaking corporation or company, owned by the state government subject to the conditions provided in the bill.
A financial memorandum of the bill said its provisions are to regulate transfers and posting of in-serving government servants to ex-cadre posts under the state government. For this, implementing the provisions will not cause financial expenditure from the consolidated fund of the state.
It also stated that the state government is delegated with the power to make rules under Clause 3 and Clause 4 (i) and (ii) of the Nagaland Government Servants’ (Transfer and Posting) Bill, 2009 to carry out the purpose of the bill. Every rule made under the bill shall be laid before the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, it said, adding that the delegated legislation is of normal character.
