“Files are pending, complaints cannot be attended to immediately in the absence of the secretary,” said Afonso.
while highlighting the plight of an elderly woman who has had to make the rounds of the panchayat on a regular basis so that her file could be cleared.
Similar is the story of 11-member Merces panchayat where its secretary is holding additional charge of the Azossim-Mandur panchayat.
Merces sarpanch Prakash Naik said that it is difficult to run the administration of the panchayat in the absence of a fulltime secretary.
“It is difficult for a secretary to concentrate in two places,” Naik added.
