Special privileges for some officers

SHILLONG:  Normally during the Assembly session all officers and employees are not allowed to take leave unless there is an emergency.
But Additional Chief Secretary of Meghalaya, PS Thangkhiew  does not appear to be governed by these rules.
Sources have informed that Thangkhiew is out of the country on a private visit despite the Assembly being in session.
This has created heartburns in other officers for whom the Government diktat is implemented very strictly. “In Meghalaya rules are made to be broken especially if one is a son of the soil,” said a senior officer who did not wish to be named.
The Additional  Chief Secretary Thangkhiew should have been as busy as his other colleagues in assisting the Minister to prepare answers and supplementaries  for the Assembly questions.
Thangkhiew is currently looking after Civil Defence and Home Guards which is a minor department. For a person of the rank of Additional CS, this seems totally out of sync since his other colleagues are saddled with several departments, quipped a junior officer in the Secretariat.
Neither Thangkhiew nor Chief Secretary Barkos Warjri was available for comments.