Debendranath Sarangi still MTC Chairman?

CHENNAI: Many of us know Debendranath Sarangi as the Chief Secretary to the government. However, if you go by the online data available, he still figures as the chairman of Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC).On the website www.tn.gov.in, if one logs in, navigates to the Departments link, selects the Transport link and chooses Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai) Ltd, Sarangi figures clearly as head of the transport corporation. The consolation, he could have, is that he has been listed as the chief secretary in the page of the telephone directory listing secretaries to the government. This page can be accessed by visiting the link http://www.tn.gov.in/telephone/allsecy.html or by navigating to the secretaries to the government link from the front top right frame of the home page(www.tn.gov.in).Likewise, M Ramasubramanian still reflects as the managing director of the MTC despite the fact that Sarangi had retired in May 2009. This could be seen right below the table which portrays Sarangi as the Metropolitan Transport Corporation chief.At a time when Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had announced that quality of institutions and governance in Vision Tamil Nadu 2023, the errors and archaic information made available for the public jolts the very idea of improving e-Governance, said a transport sector trade union leader.“Almost three years back, Sarangi was transferred from the Transport secretary post and was posted as the Principal Secretary, Environment and Forest Department, in a major reshuffle of officers. Sarangi who was the then Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) was appointed as the Chief Secretary on May 16, last,” the trade unionist noted.The TU leader requested the Chief Minister to take measures to upload all the governments orders issued in the government website to facilitate transparency.