Chief secretaries directed to fill up vacant posts in pollution control boards
Panaji
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed chief secretaries of all states to fill up vacant posts in state pollution control boards within six months and procure requisite equipment for testing, including commissioning and upgradation of all laboratories.
The NGT also directed that the work of regulators should be fulltime for the incumbents appointed applies to all key positions, including chairman/member secretary and regional officers, engineers, scientists of PCBs/PCCs. Such incumbents may not be given any other additional charge.
In Goa, 77 per cent of sanctioned technical posts including chairman and member secretary of Goa State Pollution Control Board are lying vacant that needs to be filled up immediately.