K Chandrasekhar Rao the CM has decided to identify 19 Water Resources regional Centres in the State and each centre would be headed by one ChiefEngineer as the monitoring officer.
Adilabad, Mancherial, Nizamabad,Kamareddy, Jagtial, Karimnagar, Ramagundam, arangal, Mulugu,Sangareddy, Gajwel, Nalgonda, Suryapet, Wanaparthy, Mahboobnagar,Nagar Kurnool, Hyderabad, Kothagudem and Khammam will be the regional Centres.
Six Engineers-in-Chief are also appointed and responsibilities are given. General, Administration, Operation and Maintenance wings will have E-in-Cs exclusively.
Among the regional Chief Engineers, three were given the responsibilities of the E-in-C. There are three E-in-Cs and newly three posts of E-in-C are sanctioned.
With this, the E-in-Cs number will be six. CE posts are increased from 19 to 22, SEs posts are increased from 47 to 57, EE posts are increased from 206 to 234, DEE posts from 678 to 892, AEE posts from 2436 to 2796, Technical Officers from 129 to 199, Assistant Technical officers from 173 to 242, Junior Technical Officers from 346 to 398, Non- Technical Personal Assistants from 31 to 45. Superintendents’ posts are increased from 187 to 238 and Record Assistants from 134 to 205. It is estimated that due to revamping, additionally 945 posts are required.
CM Sri KCR said that irrigation projects constructions had been taken up the government in the state as a high priority item on the agenda.
