State cabinet approves housing scheme for 4L women employees
Patna: The state cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval to the govt's proposal to provide accommodation for approximately four lakh women employees and officials, including schoolteachers, at or near their places of posting.
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The cabinet also sanctioned the creation of 8,147 new posts in various departments.
Following the cabinet meeting, cabinet secretariat department additional chief Secretary S Siddharth said the govt's decision to provide housing would benefit women working in the state secretariat, divisional, district, sub-divisional and block offices, as well as school teachers in both urban and rural areas. "The intention of the govt is to provide cheap accommodation to women employees and officials at or near the places of their posting," Siddharth said, adding that this would benefit those posted in state, district and block offices, as well as women schoolteachers.
He added that private landlords willing to participate in the scheme must first submit an expression of interest to lease their properties, after which they will enter into a lease agreement with the relevant sub-divisional officer (SDO).
A district-level committee will be established, comprising the DM, SP, the mayor of the urban local body, a representative from the building construction department and the SDO concerned.
This committee will assess aspects such as power, security, water,and sanitation of the buildings before allocating accommodation to women govt employees, officers and schoolteachers.
Siddharth added that women employees, officials, and schoolteachers interested in residing in accommodation under the scheme would need to submit a request letter to the relevant SDO with endorsements from their heads of office.
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Of the 8,147 new posts approved by the cabinet, 8,093 are for clerks and one post was dedicated to strengthening each of the equal number of panchayat secretariat offices. The remaining posts include 36 additional positions for the sports injury wing at Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan Hospital, Rajbanshinagar, Patna, which currently has 267 sanctioned posts. Also, 14 posts have been created in the agriculture marketing directorate, while four posts, including those for a senior pilot, engineer and civil engineer, have been established in the aviation wing of the cabinet secretariat department.
These roles will be contract-based with increased honorariums.
In other decisions, the cabinet approved new guidelines for issuing advertisements by urban local bodies and gave its consent to identify and select nine tribes in the state. Eligible members from these tribes will benefit from the PM-Awas Yojana for Adivasis (tribes).
The cabinet sanctioned the launch and establishment of nine mega skill development centres in the state as part of the first phase implementation of the Saat Nishchay Part-II programme. For this initiative, the cabinet approved Rs 280 crore. These centres will initially be set up in nine divisional cities – Patna, Gaya, Purnia, Saharsa, Bhagalpur, Munger, Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur and Motihari.
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