A day before making the surprise inspection in the secretariat, the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had convened a meeting with bureaucrats on Thursday. During the meeting, he had instructed the officials to fix a day when they would meet the people in the secretariat. He had also asked the minister in-charge and secretary in-charge to visit their respective districts and also to fix a time during such visits to address public grievances.
In course of the meeting with the officers, he had stressed on their firming up a time frame for the execution of the works pending. Besides, he had asked them to turn up at their offices at the appointed time and also to install biometric attendance system to ensure that all the officers and the employees turn up at the appointed time too. He had also categorically asked them to make sure that the files do not remain stuck at one place for long. He had also made it a point to them to see to it that the files do not go through more than four levels. He had asked for the prompt introduction of the e-filing system to bring pace in the official works. He had also laid emphasis on introducing tracking system to make sure that the files are passed from table to table smoothly.
He had also stressed on several works being done to improve the health system with the district hospitals receiving the priority. He had also asked the officers to publicise the state government’s ongoing projects and public welfare works by roping in ASHA and Aaganwadi workers while doing the same with the Centre-sponsored flagship projects like Namami Gange, Swachh Bharat Mission and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao . Besides, he had asked them to arrange camps or mobile health services to serve the people who are residing in remote areas sans enough of medical facilities in their localities.
Besides, he had made it clear that his government would stamp out corruption, root and branch.
Among those present at the meeting were the additional secretary to CM Omprakash, principal secretary to CM Anand Vardhan and secretaries Amit Negi and Radhika Jha.