mumbai a week after uddhav thackeray quit as chief minister the entire administration has come to a standstill owing to the delay in constitution of the cabinetsenior bureaucrats feel though shinde comfortably won the vote of confidence it will take at least three to four days more for routine functioning to resume in mantralaya shinde must expand the cabinet in a day or two and simultaneously allot portfolios so that cabinet members can discharge their duties as early as possible a senior official told toibesides the chief ministers office cmo the departments of home revenue urban development food and civil supplies and cooperation are the worst affected with each generating a minimum of 50 files needing the ministers sign off according to rules of business many files are submitted to the cmo for approvalfiles submitted for the approval of the cabinet ministers pertain to policy decisions similarly several files even after approval by the cabinet member require the approval of the cm we feel that in last seven days hundreds of files must be pending in key departments said the official with the experienced devendra fadnavis taking over as deputy cm he feels the backlog will be cleared in a timebound manneras of now fadnavis is seeking the home department but there is uncertainty if shinde will oblige him when fadnavis was cm he refused to give the home department to any other bjp leader on the grounds that for effective administration home must be with the cm now shinde can put forth the same argument and may not part with the home department besides home there may be disputes on sharing the revenue and finance departments said a senior bureaucrathe pointed out that in view of change of guard the state will witness a complete overhaul in the bureaucracy as well as the ips hierarchy shinde will appoint at least two bureaucrats in his office and additional chief secretary bhushan gagrani currently in the urban development department is a frontrunner there is a general feeling in the bureaucracy that all bureaucrats camping in the infrastructure sector for a long time should be shifted to social sector and vice versaseveral key law and order posts are lying vacant and more than half a dozen ips officers in the rank of ig are due for promotion a section of senior ips officers sidelined during the mva rule may secure plum assignments