Chief Minister Raghubar Das has said that poverty of the State could be eradicated, responsibilities on officers and staff should be fixed and all should work with team spirit to make Jharkhand a progressive State. He said that files should be moved faster and work culture should be changed. The CM has also asked departments to have a healthy competition among them and the work done by the government should be properly propagated.
The CM requested MPs and MlAs to celebrate ‘Ujala Diwas’ with the villagers where electricity was provided. He also asked officials to fix the responsibility for illegal electricity connection, seeing that as revenue was not collected in respect to electricity consumption. He said that the current development rate of the State, 12 percent, needed to be increased. Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner Amit Khare, Principal Secretary to the CM Sanjay Kumar, Secretary Sunil Kumar Barnwal and other Principal Secretaries and Secretaries were present on the occasion.
The CM said that agriculture and related areas are important from development rate increment pointy of view. “Agriculture should be coordinated with animal husbandry, water resource and cooperative and schemes should be implemented. The farmers’ income should be doubled and poverty should be eradicated from the state,” the CM said in the meeting.
He said that Jharkhand was the first state in the nation where budget had been introduced in January. He said that the departments got ample time for preparation. “The blueprint should be prepared in the next two months and implemented from April. The required DPR, tender etc. processes should be completed earlier,” asked the CM.
He also asked officials to make Global Investors’ Summit a huge success, and asked all the departments to play their role sincerely.
Khare said after the meeting that The CM asked departments to prepare a three-year Integrated Action Plan in which suggestions from State Development Council, 20-Formulae Execution Committee and Tribal Advisory Council should be included. “He has also asked departments to enquire whether plans executed successfully bore fruits on the ground or not. Such as, if a government hospital was constructed somewhere, officials needed to make sure that it got doctors posted or not, and that the doctors were coming or not,” said Khare.