Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has directed the State administration to accord top priority to those investment proposals inked during the recent Global Investors Summit -2023 which have better potential to provide employment opportunities.     He said that work on grounding all the Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) reached during the summit should be done at a fast pace. The CM was chairing a meeting of the senior officers of the State administration at his residence on Monday. He sternly told the officers that the investors should not face unnecessary hassles in the grounding of their projects. Dhami also directed that the single window system should be strengthened in the State.

 Dhami said that effective efforts should be made to make Uttarakhand free from drugs by the year 2025. He directed the officiating director general of police Abhinav Kumar that a campaign for making the state free from drugs should be undertaken in the State. The CM said that the campaign should be undertaken in a mission mode and educational institutes, health department and the organisations involved in the de-addiction activities should be involved in the campaign. He suggested that the campaign should be undertaken on a massive scale till March 2024. The parents of the students should be included in the campaign to make them aware about the ill effects of substance abuse, he added. The CM directed that work in the direction of good governance should be done expeditiously. He asked the secretary of Information Technology Development Agency (ITDA) Shailesh Bagauli to ensure that the maximum numbers of services are made online. On a stern note the CM said that all the departments should dispose of their files within the time limit. He said that the awareness about the online services should be increased in the general public so that they can easily avail the benefit of these services. He directed that the responsibilities of the officers having more pendency in disposal of the files. The CM said that more and more services should be included in the Apnu Sarkar portal. He said that it should be ensured that the people are able to get the maximum number of facilities in their homes.

 The additional chief secretary Radha Raturi, secretary R Meenakshi Sundaram, ADGP AP Anshuman, director general of information Banshidhar Tiwari and others were present in the meeting.