LG inspects guard of honour, interacts with employees
Precious Kashmir News
Srinagar, May 4: Amid COVID-19 lockdown, civil secretariat re-opened partially here on Monday after a gap of six months.
Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu arrived at the Civil Secretariat where he was greeted by the Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam.
On the occasion Advisors to the Lieutenant Governor, Kewal Kumar Sharma, Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar and Baseer Ahmad Khan, were also present. Among the senior officers Asgar Hassan Samoon Principal Secretary to the Government, School Education Department; Rohit Kansal Principal Secretary, Planning, Development and Monitoring & Information Department; Dilbag Singh, Director General of Police, Pandurang K. Pole, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Deputy Commissioner Srinagar; Sarmad Hafeez Secretary to Government, Youth Services & Sports Department; Zubair Ahmad , Secretary Tourism Department received the Lieutenant Governor. A large number of officers and employees of the various departments were also present.
Lieutenant Governor inspected the ceremonial Guard of Honour by a contingent of J&K Police.
He also interacted with the officers and sought their suggestions for further improving the public delivery mechanism, besides advising them to continue working with dedication for welfare of the public. He reiterated the government’s resolve of working tirelessly towards ensuring responsive and accountable government and good governance at all levels.
As already announced by the government, the Darbar will formally open in Srinagar on June 15 as opposed to its scheduled opening in the first week of May.
The Civil Secretariat started functioning from here today with the staff and officers on an “as is where is” basis, i.e., staff will continue working where they are based.
As per arrangement worked out by government, four administrative secretaries have been assigned different tasks for functioning of civil secretariat and monitoring development works in districts in addition to their duties.
