Hyderabad, Dec 28 (UNI) The Telanagana government on Monday initiated the process of revamping the Water Resources Department in the state in tune with major changes that have taken place in the irrigation sector.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday held a meeting with the important Water Resources Department officials at Pragathi Bhavan and finalised the structure and form of the department.
Under the restructuring, the departments under the Major, Medium and Minor irrigation were all brought under one umbrella and all the affairs of the water resources under one region were brought under one officer for monitoring purpose. Accordingly, the posts of higher officials were also increased, an official release here said.
The Chief Minister decided to identify 19 Water Resources regional centres in the state and each centre would be headed by one chief engineer as the monitoring officer. Adilabad, Mancherial, Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Jagtial, Karimnagar, Ramagundam, Warangal, Mulugu, Sangareddy, Gajwel, Nalgonda, Suryapet, Wanaparthy, Mahboobnagar, Nagar Kurnool, Hyderabad, Kothagudem and Khammam will be the regional Centres.
Six Engineers-in-Chief were also appointed and responsibilities given. General, Administration, Operation and Maintenance wings will have E-in-Cs exclusively. Among the regional chief engineers, three were given the responsibilities of the E-in-C.
There are three E-in-Cs and three new posts of E-in-C were sanctioned.
With this there will now be six E-in-Cs. CE posts were increased from 19 to 22, SEs posts were increased from 47 to 57, EE posts were increased from 206 to 234, DEE posts from 678 to 892, AEE posts from 2,436 to 2,796, Technical Officers from 129 to 199, Assistant Technical officers from 173 to 242, Junior Technical Officers from 346 to 398, Non-Technical Personal Assistants from 31 to 45. Superintendents’ posts increased from 187 to 238 and Record Assistants from 134 to 205. It is estimated that due to the revamping, an additional 945 posts are now required.
CM KCR said that irrigation projects constructions had been taken up by the government in the state as a high priority item on the agenda. As part of the important projects, the CM instructed the officials to fast track the completion of the new links.
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