To establish better communication with the people through the social media like Facebook, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat met the Facebook policy programme manager (South Asia) Nitin Saluja in Dheradun on Friday. later, Saluja had addressed a workshop attended by the Government officers on how to have effective communication with the people through social media and how their grievances can be addressed too through it.
Saluja said that Uttarkhand has become one of the few states where every department would be available on facebook thanks to the initiative of the CM. “This would make the officers to open their own facebook pages through which they would interact with the people directly,” Saluja said.
During the workshop, the attendees were told about how they would upload their daily activity on the facebook pages so that the people can get updates and can reap benefits too.
lauding the role of the social media, Saluja said that it is helping those running the administration to be posted with the people’s grievances. “To make facebook more effective, people should directly give their suggestions to the departments and subsequently, the Government would become more accountable to the people.
Facebook expanding its reach fast across the world, we can easily connect with the people, particularly, the youth,” he added.