West Bengal govt sacks nominated board members, scraps service extensions beyond age 60

NEW DELHI: The West Bengal authorities connected Monday ordered each departments to instantly region nominated members, directors and chairpersons serving successful non-statutory bodies, boards, organisations and nationalist assemblage undertakings functioning nether them.The moves comes days aft Suvendu Adhikari assumed complaint arsenic West Bengal main curate pursuing the BJP's monolithic triumph successful the assembly polls.In a abstracted direction, the authorities authorities besides asked departments to discontinue the re-employment and work extensions granted to officers and officials who continued beyond the accustomed status property of 60 years."The authorities has issued an bid to instrumentality indispensable enactment to instantly terminate the tenures of the nominated members, directors, oregon chairpersons of antithetic boards, organisations, non-statutory bodies and nationalist assemblage undertakings of the authorities government," a elder bureaucrat said.The directive was sent to each further main secretaries, main secretaries and departmental secretaries. It further stated that "the tenure of officers/officials who are connected re-employment/ hold of work beyond the mean property of superannuation (60 years) successful antithetic departments nether the authorities authorities whitethorn besides beryllium terminated immediately".According to the order, the determination was taken "with the support of the competent authority".

Officials did not instantly clarify the crushed down the determination oregon uncover however galore appointments and work extensions would beryllium impacted.In the assembly elections results, the BJP won 207 seats successful the 294-member West Bengal assembly, portion the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC secured lone 80 seats. The authorities besides recorded a elector turnout of much than 90 per cent.