KPSC reforms: Panel to be constituted to decide on Fee chief, members

KPSC reforms: Panel to be constituted to decide on Fee chief, members

 

Shut on the heels of an elaborate debate within the legislature on the necessity for reforms within the Karnataka Public Service Fee (KPSC), the State Cupboard on Friday determined to represent a “broad-based search committee” to decide on appropriate personalities to be appointed to the KPSC and focus on the necessity to scale back the variety of members.

In response to sources, the proposed committee, which includes the chief secretary amongst others, is being constituted to decide on the fitting candidates for the posts of the KPSC chairperson and members as per the suggestions of the P.C. Hota Committee that had regarded into making the recruitment course of clear and environment friendly.

Lowering members

It’s also discovered that the Cupboard determined to look at the proposal for lowering the variety of KPSC members. Presently, the Fee has 16 members, together with the chairperson. This had come underneath criticism within the Meeting, with Chief of the Opposition R. Ashok mentioning that the UPSC of Uttar Pradesh has fewer members, although it’s a larger State. Even the Administrative Reforms Committee led by T.M. Vijay Bhaskar had advisable downsizing of the KPSC.

In response to sources, a call on the precise degree of downsizing is predicted to be taken within the subsequent assembly of the State Cupboard. The downsizing of the KPSC must get the Governor’s nod.

The Cupboard can be discovered to have determined to usher in a Invoice to amend the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurements Act, 1999, to implement the budgetary proposal of offering a 4 per cent reservation in public works contracts for two(B), Muslims. 

Gram Swaraj Invoice

In response to sources, the Cupboard additionally determined to usher in a Invoice to amend the Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act to supply for one-time regularisation of almost 96 lakh properties positioned on income layouts in rural areas.

The federal government has introduced that these properties could be introduced underneath e-swathu by a one-time regularisation. The thought of offering a one-time regularisation is to deliver these properties on unauthorised layouts into the tax property tax community in order that the native our bodies would get sources.

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