Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said in a conference that his Ministry is mulling to give Rs 10 lakh extra to such employees, who want to take VRS.
New
Delhi: Government is considering giving financial incentives Rs 10 lakh to
those central government employees willing to go to voluntary retirement.
The
Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday that he has asked his
Ministry to come out with a proposal to give Rs 10 lakh extra to such employees
for taking VRS.
Gadkari
asked bureaucrats and engineers to take voluntary retirement, who often raise
needless objections or delay work.
“There
is a tendency to stop or delay work, which goes against everyone and hampers
development. It’s better that government personnel take VRS…Let them go rather
than troubling us,” Gadkari said while addressing a conference on highway
construction equipment.
Large
number of engineers and other officials from Transport Ministry, NHAI and other
affiliated agencies were present in the meeting.
This is
not the first time when Gadkari has cracked the whip on a public platform. Soon
after taking charge of the Ministry, he had asked officials and engineers to
stop the practice of making contractors visit them again and again.
He had
said he would prefer such officials go out of the system. Gadkari had also
warned that strict action would be taken against all those who keep files with
them for several days.
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