DIC suffers from staff shortage

 

COOCH BEHAR, Nov. 15: District Industries Centre (DIC) has to shoulder the responsibility of progress of industrialisation in the district but it is suffering from shortage of personnel. It is like a vessel without adequate sailors.

 

There are six sanctioned posts of Industrial Development Officer (IDO) at the Cooch Behar office of the DIC but actually there is one IDO only. He has to work as the head clerk of the office. Out of twelve IDOs for twelve blocks in this district two posts are lying vacant at Tufanganj-I and Mathabhanga-II for a long. In the six municipal towns in this district there is no IDO at all.

 

The total staff strength at the DIC should be thirty-three. Among these sanctioned posts there are only eighteen persons. Among the officials there should be eight managers but here one can find out three of them only (including the general manager). There are nine other staff (like upper division clerk and lower division clerk) in sixteen posts. There are two personal assistants and one record supplier only.

 

Though the DIC is suffering from shortage of personnel its performance is good enough especially in implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Rozgar Yojana (PMRY), claimed the manager (credit) Mr Sanjib Sen. The DIC has to keep contact with sixty-four bank branches in this district to maintain liaison between entrepreneurs of new units and banks. The situation may have improved for better if there were adequate personnel, admitted Mr Sen.

 

Appeals were made to the director of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises several times but no one came forward yet to take the initiative to send some staff here to fill up the vacant posts, DIC sources said in Cooch Behar. []