Acting on the instruction of the Chief Minister Harish Rawat, who has categorically asked officials to visit districts or project execution sites at regular intervals, Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar has issued a notification on Tuesday.
In the notification, the CS has allocated districts to the principal secretaries and secretaries. From now onwards, Principal Secretaries and Secretaries would be responsible for each of the districts. Talking to the media persons, Kumar said that the CM has stressed on the doctors and teachers being present in the schools and hospitals.
“The visits would enable the Principal Secretary and Secretary to get inputs how things are going on in the districts. If this happens things would improve considerably,” he said.
Recently, Rawat has expressed displeasure and asked the officials to monitor the execution of projects on the ground and to evolve a way as to how to establish coordination between government and executing agency. He has also said that if officer will visit the district or project execution site they will visit other sites too on way to their destinations and, if done, it will leave positive impact.
With the visits of the officials happening at regular intervals, the district officials and executing agencies, who keep grudging over the senior officials rarely visiting will get active and will not dare compromise on quality.
CM also said that the officials must visit schools, hospitals and other departments’ offices too. During inspection, they should also check attendance of the teachers and doctors in schools and hospitals respectively.
Now Principal Secretaries and Secretaries were asked to submit their reports to the Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary and to the CM as well. As per the order, the Principal Secretary S Raju has been made in charge of Udham Singh Nagar, Principal Secretary S Ramaswami in charge of Nainital, Ranbir Singh made in charge of Tehri, Principal Secretary Ompraksh made in charge of Pauri Garhwal; Radha Raturi made in-charge of Haridwar district; Principal Secretary MH Khan made in charge of Bageshwar; Secretary Vinod Fonia made in charge of Chamoli district; Secretary Manisha Panwar made in charge of Dehradun; Secretary Umakant Panwar made in-charge of Uttarkashi; Secretary RK Sudhanshu made in-charge of Rudraprayag district; Secretary Amit Negi made in-charge of Almora; Secretary PS Jangpangi made in-charge of Pithoragarh and Secretary Ajay Kumar Pradyot made in-charge of Champawat district.