PANAJI: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar will leave for the United States via Mumbai on Thursday evening.
He is expected to be away for 10 days during which he will undergo a thorough medical check-up at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he had undergone treatment for his pancreatic ailment between March-June this year.
Top government sources said, Parrikar is said to have told the top brass in the State administration that he will oversee administrative matters from the United States. Regular files will be handled by the Chief Minister's Office while files that require his express attention and signature will be handled by his Principal Secretary P Krishnamurthy.
An official order outlining the administrative protocol in Parrikar's absence is expected to be issued on Thursday, the sources said.
