Rationalisation of clerical posts in all departments, collection of slum improvement cess as a percentage of the property tax and other taxes levied by urban local bodies and revision of water tariff for industrial use... these are some of the recommendations made by the Karnataka Administrative Reforms Commission-2 (KARC-2) in its sixth report submitted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday.
Recommending that there is no need to continue with more posts of the First Division Assistant (FDA) and Second Division Assistant (SDA), the commission led by T.M. Vjay Bhaskar has said the government can consider reviewing the number of FDA and SDA posts in each department and rationalising them or converting them into technical posts (e.g. forest guards in the Forest Department).
“Many FDA, SDA posts and other clerical posts are vacant in all departments. Clerical work would have reduced considerably with the introduction and adoption of the HRMS, Khajane 2, e-Office, e-Par and e-Service Register,” the commission’s report stated.
