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Government creates new departments and eliminates new positions.

The decrees creating two new secretariats have already been published in the Official Gazette; these are the State Secretariats of Transport and Urban Development (Setrand) and of Sport, Leisure and Youth (Selaj); therefore, some commissioned positions and bonus-paid functions in other secretariats have been eliminated; the secretaries who will head the new departments have not yet been appointed.

Palace of the Republic of Palmares (Photo: Voney Malta)

Alagoas247 - Two new state secretariats were created by the government of Alagoas through decrees published in the Official Gazette this Wednesday (1st). From now on, the State Secretariats of Transport and Urban Development (Setrand) and of Sport, Leisure and Youth (Selaj) will be part of the list of departments. 

Setrand will be composed of three deputy secretariats: Planning, Public Works, and Infrastructure and Management. With the creation of the new department, several sectors of the State Secretariat of Infrastructure (Seinfra) will be eliminated, such as the Deputy Secretariat of Public Works, Transport and Logistics and its superintendency, the Intermunicipal and Metropolitan Transport Management, and the Directorate of Development and Policy for Logistics and Transport.

With this, the appointed positions and bonus-paid functions of the Infrastructure Secretariat are also eliminated. The State Transportation Council is removed from the Infrastructure Secretariat's structure and becomes part of the State Secretariat for Public Works and Transportation (Setrand), as does the Department of Highways (DER). 

The State Secretariat for Sport, Leisure and Youth (Selaj) has two Deputy State Secretariats: the Secretariat for Sport and Leisure and the Secretariat for Youth. With the creation of this department, the following are eliminated from the State Secretariat of Education: the Superintendency of School Sports, the Directorate of Sports Policies, the Executive Management of Sport and Performance, Special Sports, Community Sports, the Rei Pelé Stadium, and the Directorate of School Sports, as well as the appointed positions and gratified functions. 

The secretaries who will head the two departments have not yet been named.

With gazetaweb.com