Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, while addressing a district Collectors’ conference here on Saturday, asked the departmental Secretaries to tour various districts for four days during the first week of every month as part of their field visits.
“To ensure proper implementation of schemes and programmes of the Government and to ensure actual delivery of services to people, it is important that other supervisory officers right from the Heads of the Departments to block-level extension functionaries make intensive field visits,” the CM said.
“Priority programmes and schemes of the Government, which are being discussed in today’s conference, shall be inspected in the field by the Secretaries methodically,” he said.
Mentioning that a period of eight months is ahead of the onset of next monsoon, Patnaik said this period should be utilised to speed up the execution of the development works by all the concerned departments and agencies.
The Chief Minister said he would specifically review the performances of works-related departments after one month.
He also sought a report from the Secretaries and the Collectors on the suggestions made in the last Collectors’ conference and the inputs received from people on web portal.