GUWAHATI, 30 Apr: About 300 officers of Assam Police, who are \u201chabitual drinkers\u201d, will be offered voluntary retirement, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday.
\nThe process has already begun and new recruitment will take place to fill the vacancies, he said.
\n\u201cAbout 300 officers and jawans are habitual drinkers, and consumption of too much alcohol has damaged their bodies. The government has a provision of voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for them.
\n\u201cIt is an old rule, but we had not implemented it earlier,\u201d Sarma, who also holds the home portfolio, told reporters on the sidelines of a programme.
\nThe chief minister said he is also working on decentralisation of governance, and has set in motion the process for opening offices with powers that were previously vested with the deputy commissioners\u2019 office in all 126 legislative assembly constituency areas.
\n\u201cWe are trying to ensure people don\u2019t have to travel to the district headquarters for work at the DC\u2019s office, and that the DC\u2019s office is available in every LAC area.
\n\u201cThe DCs will look after law and order, and they will be given different responsibilities,\u201d Sarma added. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GUWAHATI, 30 Apr: About 300 officers of Assam Police, who are \u201chabitual drinkers\u201d, will be offered voluntary retirement, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. The process has already begun and new recruitment will take place to fill the vacancies, he said. \u201cAbout 300 officers and jawans are habitual drinkers, and consumption of too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}