Chhattisgarh Government’s Advocate General (AG) JKT Gilda, in the presence of Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, on Saturday held detailed discussions with the senior officers of different departments of the State Government on making administrative works more facilitating and effective between the Government and the AG's office.
In the meeting, Dhand said that the Government was encountering problems in appointing in-charge officer and taking other necessary departmental action, as it was not getting copy of writ petitions registered against the Government, along with the court notice. The Advocate General said that his office would arrange for sending copy of writ petitions along with the court notice.
In-charge officers were instructed to prepare reply to all such cases in which different departments are made parties, with co-operation. A need to form panel of lawyers for the cases of Panchayat and labour departments was stressed in the meeting.Discussions were held on upgrading broadband facility in the Office of the Advocate General and appointment of senior lawyers for National Green Tribunal, Bhopal and CAT Circuit Bench, Bilaspur.
The Chief Secretary told officers of all the departments that the Secretary of the Department concerned would take personal interest in preparing reply to important court cases.He said, to prepare list of all such pending cases for more than one year, in which suspension order has been issued and send it to the Office of the Advocate General, with a copy to the Principal Secretary, law and Justice Department.
The Chief Secretary asked Secretary, General Administration Department (GAD) to send letters to all the collectors and commissioners to ensure that if any officer is transferred, while handing over charge, he should give charge of the cases on which he was In-charge, so that reply to court cases could be presented on time. If the court wants personal appearance of any Secretary in any case, the Advocate General’s office should send a letter to this effect to the Secretary concerned for appearance in the court . The Advocate General said that timely adherence to all court orders should be ensured.
Additional Chief Secretary Agriculture and Health, Ajay Singh, Principal Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development, MK Raut, Principal Secretary law and Justice, AK Samant Rai, Principal Secretary Gramodyog Sunil Kujur, Secretary, Higher Education Dr Bl Agrawal, Secretary School Education Dinesh Shrivastava, Secretary, Woman and Child Development Subrat Sahu, secretary WRD and PHED Ganesh Shankar Mishra and Secretary, GAD, Vikassheel were present in the meeting.