Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has not visited his grievance cell to hear people’s complaints for nearly nine years since August 16, 2008.
This was revealed from information furnished by Public Grievances and Pension Minister Jogendra Behera in response to a question of Congress MlA Chandra Sekhar Majhi in the State Assembly on Thursday.
While Majhi wanted to on which days the Chief Minister visited his grievance cell since 2006, the Minister informed that Patnaik had visited the cell for a total of 16 days between May 27, 2006 and August 8, 2008 and received a total of 2,435 grievances. The CM visited the cell once in 2006, thrice in 2007 and 12 days in 2008.
The Minister said now officers are receiving grievances at the grievance cell now and the Chief Minister hearing people in his residence and Government office every day. Besides, the Chief Minister directs the officers to resolve people’s problems received through e-grievance, e-mail and Posts and published in newspapers.