BENGALURU: After the Urban Development Department (UDD) instructed the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) to rework its Cadre and Recruitment (C and R) rules, the Authority has come out with new norms, reducing the financial implication from Rs 50 crore to Rs 20 crore per month, with a major part going towards staff salaries.
When the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) was managing the city, the sanctioned staff strength was over 22,000, including pourakarmikas, though the civic body was managing with around 17,000 employees.
Now, after the transition into GBA and five city corporations, the number of staff needed has only increased, GBA sources said.
The earlier proposal was for 6,500 employees-- including IAS, KAS and other staff across all categories but excluding pourakarmikas -- Groups A, B, C and D.
While the number of employees needed in the A and B categories is less, there was a request for more staff in Group D. The proposal had a financial implication of over Rs 50 crore per month, a GBA official said.
That has been reworked and the outlay has been reduced to Rs 20 crore by reducing the requirement for Group D employees, the official said.
“The GBA has been instructed to follow the ‘Bidar model’ to cut down the total staff needed.
Under that, contractual appointment of outsourced employees happens through district-level workers’ services multi-purpose cooperative societies that are headed by deputy commissioners (DC), which in this case is Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner. We have to place requests for employees and get them when needed,” he explained.
GBA will get additional staff of 3,000, excluding pourakarmikas, he added.
GBA Special Commissioner (Finance and Administration) Harish Kumar said, “We have submitted the C and R rules to the government, which has now been forwarded to the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) and to Finance and Law Departments. They will go through and share their observations, seek clarifications from us, if any.”
After the clearance from these three departments, the new C and R rules would be approved, he added.