Hyderabad: The TS government has handed over the responsibility of vacating Secretariat departments to six special chief secretaries. Special chief secretaries K. Pradeep Chandra, S.P. Singh, M.G. Gopal, S.K. Joshi, Rajiv Ranjan Acharya and V.K. Agarwal have been allotted five to six departments each.
Mr Gopal was allotted agriculture, cooperation, marketing, animal husbandry, housing and rain shadow area development departments. Mr S.P. Singh was allotted tribal welfare, SC welfare, BC welfare, minority welfare, women & child welfare and youth services and tourism departments.
Some of the top officials were holding meetings with the departments concerned on Wednesday to discuss the plan of action. Heads of department will also participate in these meetings.
The special chief secretaries will take the opinion of the departments also where they want to shift and when. After this, they will submit a report to the Chief Secretary. The state government has decided in principle to shift the Secretariat departments to the offices of the heads of department concerned.
Officials said after AP HoDs shifted to Amaravati, plenty of space was available in their former offices. However, Secretariat departments will be scattered all over the city. Municipal administration department will be moved to the municipal commissionerate.
The planning department will be moved to the Directorate of Economics & Statistics Bureau at Khairtabad, the finance department to Abids and the irrigation department to Errummanzil. Along with some other Secretariat departments, the offices of ministers and the Chief Secretary will be located in the BRK Bhavan.
The government has directed offices located at BRK Bhavan and Hermitage Complex to vacate. The officials said it will take at least 20 days to vacate the Secretariat departments.
Focus on governance: KCR
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday directed officials to concentrate on administration by preparing proposals on government offices to be set up in education, health, agriculture and other sectors in the new districts.
He also directed officials to send the reports to the Centre on departments functioning with Central funds in the districts. Mr Rao said that in every district, Navodaya, Kendriya Vidyalayas and Krishi Vigyan Kendras should be set up.
