Keeping up with the challenges of bureaucrats and the accountability involved in the service, a civil servant must change and adopt all modern techniques with the changing time to deliver his best and to combat every situation,” said, Ranchi DC, Manoj Kumar while addressing officials during the 11th Civil Services Day programme at Collectorate here on Friday.
Focusing on public welfare activities and emphasising on the topic taken up this year as the Civil Service Day theme ‘Creating value through human capital management in Government’, Kumar said, “To strengthen the present administrative setup, use of human resources to its optimum level is not just the need of an hour but also the requirement and one major challenge for the officials. The district administration is determined to serve the public, recognising the potential of all government personnel.”
Citing examples while sharing the details of MNREGA mandate, widow pension scheme, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), PMAY programme, bio-metric attendance Kumar said that the district is doing remarkably well and is far ahead in comparison other districts in implementation of all the welfare schemes.
“The time has changed drastically and with voluminous work, accountability and responsibility has increased more now. Balance should be maintained and the authoritarian power must be increased. Decision making provision that was merely 4-5 per cent should be augmented,” added the DC. Notably, the central government has also invited suggestions for administrative reforms from the bureaucrats.
Considering human resource as an asset and to adequately use the human resource potential, ADM Naxal, Poonam Jha, said, “Distribution of human resources adequately in every section must be ensured. Besides that focus must be on involving rural population by skilling them in constructive traits.”
Redefining the role of civil servants, Jha further said, “Ability of disposing files is very slow even now in all most every government setup. Training of government personnel is must before handling them the responsibility in any government section. Making them familiar with the modern technology is also required besides taking up a collective attempt to increase the incentives time and again. Reviewing the case studies regularly will increase the accountability and collective efforts of all employees.”
From administrators to public servant, the transparency has increased enormously in government work making the official directly liable to the public in democratic system. Encouraging the government officials who have done outstanding work covering various areas while keeping the public interest on priority were felicitated by the Ranchi DC and other senior officials on the Civil Service Day.