In a weekly cabinet meeting, the Assam cabinet on Saturday approved filling up the vacancies for the posts in which the candidates selected in the examination for Grade III and Grade IV did not join.
The cabinet approved that to fill the posts where candidates selected in the examination for Grade III and Grade IV posts did not join, other candidates who were not selected but secured the same cut-off marks in the respective lowest Grade Pay category in the recruitment examination will be appointed.
The criteria set by the cabinet for filling up the vacant posts are:
Maximum vacancies will be filled up with candidates who have already appeared in the recruitment process and obtained the same cut-off marks
The number of posts to be filled up in this category will depend upon the vacancies communicated by the respective administrative departments
It may be mentioned that the results to fill up numerous Grade-III and Grade IV positions in the Government of Assam were declared on May 3 and 4 respectively. The results for the examination conducted by the Assam State Level Recruitment Commission were declared on the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) official website. However, it is noticed that several selected candidates did not join the posts or resigned after joining due to which the cabinet decided to fill up the vacancies.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, taking to Twitter, informed of the several other decisions taken as part of the cabinet meeting held earlier in the day.
The following includes the key decisions:
Government to invest Rs. 823 crore as additional equity in the Expansion Project of Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) against the ‘Right issue of Additional Equity Share of 74809091 nos. to the Govt of Assam’
Rs. 205.72 crore to be released by Government of Assam towards the first call against the total right Shares amounting to Rs. 823 crore
NRL has undertaken a major expansion project at an estimated cost of Rs. 28,026 crore for:
Refinery expansion from existing 3 MMT to 9 MMT
Laying of 1,398 km Crude Pipeline from Paradeep to Numaligarh
Laying of 605-km Product Pipeline from Numaligarh to Siliguri
The proposed expansion project of NRL to bring an investment of Rs. 28,026 crore in the state
Revised Procedure for online submission of monthly accounts relating to Works and Forest Department to Accountant General’s (AG) office
Approval to:
Online submission of consolidated monthly accounts to AG
Dispensing with manual cheque drawal for works-related expenditure through submission of online treasury bills forms TR59 and TR60
Dispensing with operating remittance head of account 8782 for Works/Forest expenditure
Draft Assam Treasury (Amendment) Rules, 2023
The proposed system shall streamline Works/Forest accounts through technical integration, resulting in timely accounting and facilitating generation of real-time information regarding finance through civil accounts which in turn will help in taking decisions
