Absence of CDPO may stall staff's salary
Source: The Sangai Express / S Singlianmang Guite

Lamka, December 11 2013: Irrespective of the social welfare department releasing six months honorarium and salaries for Aganwadi workers and departmental staff early this month, absence of CDPO for the Sangaikot project (block), is likely to stall the much anticipated money indefinitely.

Sources in the project said the CDPO of Sangaikot Kh Maipakpi Devi has retired from service three months back but without any replacement, stalling the honorarium and salaries of over 120 workers and around half a dozen staff simply because they have no officer to authorise disbursement.

The Government's well intended purpose of releasing the funds prior to Christmas would have no meaning unless some provisional arrangements were made as chances of appointing a new CDPO is minimal, it added.

The Government, according to the sources is planning on a special recruitment drive for the CDPO posts preferably under MPSC which will no doubt take atleast some months to materialise and to make the workers and staff of Sangkot project wait through the entire process of recruitment will smack of any compassionate intention the department may imbibe in releasing the funds before Christmas.

A supervisor in the project said, many of the workers have come knocking on their doors pleading they need to clear the school fees of their kids or wanted to but something for their children before Christmas, underlining the anticipation behind the honorarium.

At one point, one of the blocks in the district faced similar situation but was solved by granting the PO, who heads the department at the district level, authority to disburse the funds, she said adding, without similar or some form of arrangement not just the 60 odd workers and another 60 odd helpers but the department staffs themselves will be facing a hard time throughout the festive season and the subsequent academic session that will follow.

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