Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Monday issued a fresh diktat to babus, saying that nonperforming officials should be removed from the service.
He sent out a clear signal and directed the officials not to overlook larger public interest and work for their betterment.
“Water, electricity, road and law and order are the responsibilities of the Government. It is the duty of the officials to work in the interest of the people. There should not be any laxity on this part and those officials who are not performing should be handed over VRS,” the CM said while reviewing schemes and security scenario in the State.
He, on the occasion, also lauded departments for spending 83 per cent of budgeted amount while stressing to keep focus on expectations of the people. The CM was also for simplification of developmental schemes and their speedy approvals and allocations. He also directed officials present to go voluntarily in villages to oversee the execution of the schemes locally. Roadmap for different departments would have to be fixed while identifying priorities of the Government.
“If you people go to the field directly, then pressure on lower rung officials would be built for better performance. This would also make people participate in the developmental works. You should develop such a system where there is less time taken in movement of files and development schemes can go on ground quickly while removing procedural delays,” said the Chief Minister and also instructed secretaries to prepare blueprints within three months for spending 100 per cent budgetary provisions.
The CM also concentrated on water scarcity during summer and ordered for prepare well to deal with the crisis looming over in the State. Villagers would be given equipment, solar pump sets, sawing machine and loans besides, cows and other means of livelihood. Teams of Energy and Rural Development Departments would work in concerted manner for lift irrigation. The CM also directed to build small ponds before June to check rainwater locally.
IT Department, on the occasion, informed that ‘CM Dashboard’ would be set up to monitor the development schemes besides, ‘e-office’ for tracking online movement of files. Work on nine integrated check posts and Namami Gange project would be completed on priority basis.
On the law and order front, the CM suggested to incorporate youths as ‘police mitras’ and ordered for early completion of trauma centres and starting highway patrolling. Online mutation process would also start this year.
Also present on the occasion was Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma who directed officials to prepare a roadmap for executing 2016-17 budgetary provisions. “All the departments should adopt resource mapping method and formulate plan right down to district level. We all have to work for the standards required for improving the State ranking,” said Verma.
Development Commissioner-cum Planning Secretary Amit Khare said that the Road Construction and Energy departments have spent cent per cent amount allotted while there are 12 others that have been able to disburse 90 per cent or more. 116 out of 173 announcements made in 2015-16 budget speech have been completed.
On education front, it was informed that syllabus for class 6-8 would be prepared this year. This apart, five out of three private universities, which signed an MoU, would start their academic session. Admission in the Raksha Shakti University would also start this year itself. DGP DK Pandey and Principal Secretary to the CM Sanjay Kumar were present in the meeting apart from all secretaries of the departments.