Cabinet approves amendment of MSSR, MAEMR

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 25, 2022

The state Cabinet on Wednesday approved the amendment of the Meghalaya Secretariat Service Rules, 1992.

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said with this amendment the appointing authority for the posts of under secretary, deputy secretary and joint secretary will be the chief secretary since they being not that senior posts.

He said earlier such posts used to be appointed by the Governor.

Sangma also informed that the cabinet has also approved the amendments of the Meghalaya Agriculture Engineering Medical Rules which seeks to increase the internal promotions from 25 percent to 30 percent. This is in view of the fact that 30 percent is being followed in other departments of the government. 

“Instead of direct recruitment the vacancies will be filled up by the promotions that are there,” he said. 

Meanwhile, the state government has also decided to implement the revised All India Council of Technical Education scale for over 32 faculty members of Shillong Polytechnic and others on the transfer to the Directorate of Higher and Technical Education.

This is slightly higher than the state’s scale so the cabinet has taken the decision that these 32 faculty members who are qualified in terms of the AICTE guidelines will get the AICTE scale of pay, he added.