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Thakur issues guidelines

BANGALORE: Governor Rameshwar Thakur has issued a set of guidelines for Secretaries on matters relating to administration and policy decisions for what appears to be a prolonged period of President’s Rule in the State.

In the official memorandum issued on Tuesday night, the Secretaries were asked to strictly follow the instructions before submitting the files on various cases that needed a decision.

The order said: The secretaries and other officers will continue to exercise all powers delegated to and exercised by them before November 20. Cases which would have been decided by ministers should be disposed of by the Advisers to Governor, except matters of a sensitive nature and those involving policy decisions.

Advisers should obtain the Governor’s order on any important matter which they feel is of special consequence. Cases which were to be submitted to the Cabinet should be submitted to the executive committee for taking a decision.

All the cases which were to be submitted to the Chief Minister under the rules should be placed before the Adviser.

On being approved by him, it will go to the Governor for a decision.

In the event of disagreement among departments, the matter should be referred to the Chief Secretary, and if he is unable to solve it, he may submit the same to the Adviser concerned.

If it cannot be solved because it falls under the jurisdiction of more than one Adviser, it should be brought before the executive committee.

If any statutory notification (not GOs), which were to come into force with effect from the dates of their publication in the Gazette have been issued by order and in the name of the Governor up to and inclusive of November 20 and these had not been gazetted, the same may be withdrawn and sent for publication expressing the said notifications to be made or executed by order.

It should be in the name of the President.

The order said the Governor retained the powers of accepting or rejecting advice on sensitive and policy matters given by the authorities concerned.

Supporting the Governor’s order, the former Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council M.C. Naniah and the former MLC A.K. Subbaiah said that it was absolutely within the constitutional parameters.

The action, they said, would avoid unnecessary criticism.

A system had been formulated under which the cases had to be referred to by the secretaries concerned to the advisers in charge of the department and then on to the Governor for taking decisions, the leaders added.

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