Monday, July 9, 2018

Govt to transfer officers ahead of Chennai district expansion

Yogesh.Kabirdoss@timesgroup.com

Chennai:09.07.2018

Gearing up to complete the process of Chennai district expansion, the state government has notified transfer of staff from neighbouring Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts to Chennai. The move is aimed at providing sufficient number of staff to the revenue department of the extended district which is a prelude to the final notification on the city’s expansion that is expected this month.

In a recent notification, revenue secretary Atulya Misra said that in the event of sufficient number of employees not opting to migrate to the newly expanded Chennai district and considering the existing vacancies in the newly expanded district, the junior-most staff in the respective category may be transferred to the newly expanded (Chennai) district from Tiruvallur and Kancheepuram districts to meet the number of posts transferred from each district.

For instance, if the total number of posts to be transferred in the category of tahsildar is 10, of which six are from Tiruvallur district and four from Kancheepuram and only two from Tiruvallur opt to move to Chennai, “in such a situation, four juniormost tahsildars from Kancheepuram and four from Tiruvallur shall be transferred to Chennai”, the notification added.

As part of the expansion, option was given to government employees to choose between moving to the extended Chennai district or prefer their respective district. The expansion programme for including the taluks on the fringe of the city commenced in January. After expansion, the size of Chennai district would increase from 176sqkm to 426sqkm covering all the areas of Greater Chennai Corporation. A total of 67 revenue villages in these taluks would be merged with the extended district.

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