SHILLONG:
The State Cabinet, on August 25, approved the appointment of a full-time Secretary of the Meghalaya State Council of Technical Education (MSCTE) and executive chairman of the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE).
Addressing the media, Law Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said it has been a felt need that the government should install a full time Secretary of the MSCTE considering the fact that the polytechnics are almost in several districts including Shillong, Tura and Jowai and four more are also in the pipeline.
“The current additional director DHTE (Directorate of Higher Technical Education) A Ali will be going for retirement shortly and it has also been decided in the Cabinet that she will be the first time full time secretary of the MSCTE for 24 months,” she said.
The minister also informed that the Cabinet has approved the appointment of CP Marak, who is a retired Indian Forest Officer, as executive chairman of MBOSE for a period of 12 months.
She said that the Cabinet was also pleased to approve the change of the Captain Williamson Sangma Technical University to Captain Williamson Sangma State University. “…all line departments have also seen this proposal and have deemed it fit to make this change and we will be taking this Bill back to the floor of the Assembly,” she added.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet also approved the amendment of the Meghalaya Judicial Service Rules, 2006 and Meghalaya Higher Judicial Services Rules, 2015. “The amendment proposes to omit the provisions providing recruitment of judicial officers by the commission and after the amendment, the recruitment will be done by the high court of Meghalaya. Further, wherever the word Gauhati High Court appears, this word will be substituted by the word High Court of Meghalaya. The amendment also proposes to change the nomenclature of judicial officers as per directions of the Supreme Court,” she said.