To make revenue officers more accountable, the Uttar Pradesh government is mulling to provide them smart-phones with an app through which they can upload information about their villages and superiors can track their location.
The agriculture minister Surya Prtap Shahi said in Deoria that the state government will provide CUG (Closed User Groups) number smart-phones through the agriculture department to
lekhpals (revenue officers). In these, smart-phones there will be an app, which will help the lekhpal to upload all the information pertaining to their village. He said this will also enable the superior officer to exercise better control over the subordinate officers.
He said the smart-phones would be made available by May-June by the agriculture department. The minister also said that the state government is helping everyone without making any discrimination. Instead of religion and caste, the economic status of people is the sole criteria for extending the benefits of the welfare schemes to the common people.