Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar has categorically instructed that required information by all departments should be uploaded on the website by June 15. He expressed this while reviewing the “Suraaj Evam Bhrashtachar Unmoolan” (Good Governance and Corruption Eradication) department at Secretariat on Friday
He also said that the number of services provided under the Right to Service Act must be increased. He said information about the E-District project should also be provided. The CS said that to bring transparency in the working of the Government, it was necessary that all departments should provide information about their work on the website.
It may be recalled that regarding this, a GO was issued in December 2011. In this GO, it was said that information about construction work up to Rs 25 lakh, advertisements about giving contracts, land allotment, promotion in cadres, description of direct recruitment, domicile certificates and caste certificates, PP mode projects etc be uploaded on the website.
This GO also said that the services provided should be expanded. By June 15; all departments will have to inform which services they can add. Till now, the E-district project is a pilot project operating in Pauri distric. It now has to be implemented in all districts. NIC has prepared a software for this project. By, June 15, information about this project will also have to be given.
The CS has also asked for a list of the departments which are not logging in to the Samadhan Portal which was created for solving peoples’ problems online.
Present at the meeting were PS (Agriculture) Om Prakash, PS (IT) Radha Raturi, Secretary (Education) Manisha Panwar, Secretary (Suraaj) Surendra Singh Rawat, Secretary (Revenue) Bhaskaranand, Additional Secretary Vinod Sharma, Ajay Kumar Pradyot, Usha Shukla, RC Aggarwal, MC Upreti, RC lohani, Amit Negi and RN Raman.