Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged the District Collectors to create conducive atmosphere for women so that they feel empowered to go to tehsil and block offices to get their problems sorted out.
Patnaik while inaugurating a Collectors’ Workshop here at the State Secretariat here on Sunday said implementation of 3Ts (technology, teamwork and transparency) should percolate to the ground level so that women would not fear to visit these offices with their issues.
The three-day Collectors’ Workshop is being held for improving citizen-centric services through the 3Ts.
Members of the Council of Ministers, the Chief Secretary, the Development Commissioner, the Agriculture Production Commissioner, the Additional Chief Secretaries and the Principal Secretaries and Secretaries were present at the inaugural session.
The Chief Minister said the Collectors are at the cutting edge of delivering the Government’s pro-people initiatives.
“While addressing the Council of Ministers on the completion of three years of the current Government, I had stressed upon improving the public service through 3Ts, technology, teamwork and transparency, which will lead to better delivery of services for our people,” Patnaik said.
“Rural housing, water supply, paddy procurement, schemes and services relating to our farmers, facilities for the students, municipal services, youth and skill development, implementation of the Forest Rights Act, welfare schemes for the construction workers, public service delivery under the Odisha Right to Public Services Act, improvement of our government hospitals and health services are some of the major pro-people initiatives of our Government,” he said.
During the workshop, through five different groups, the above 10 initiatives would be deliberated at length for better innovative solutions which would eventually lead to better implementation of the State Government’s various flagship programs, he said. The Chief Minister also informed that a web portal for collecting feedbacks from citizens in this regard has been developed.
Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi presenting s keynote said the Collectors are needed to provide out-of-box thinking at the workshop. Service delivery is the priority of the State Government, and fresh thinking is welcome to make the deliberations fruitful, he said.
Development Commissioner R Balakrishnan said this is not a regular conference of Collectors. It is a different kind of initiative for delivery and introspection. The Collectors need to create a favourable ecosystem to meet the aspirations of the people in general and young mass in particular, said he.