Chief Minister Raman Singh will share his thoughts with people of the State on radio in a programme to be aired from 10.45 am to 11 am on second Sunday of every month.
The Akashwani centres of the State will start airing the programme from September 13, Sunday, officials stated.
In this programme titled as ‘Raman ke Goth’, Singh will talk about social-cultural and administrative activities of Chhattisgarh and the development schemes initiated and being implemented by his Government.
Generally, Chief Ministers of other states use to address public on Akashwani and Doordarshan on August 15 every year, on the occasion of Independence Day. But, Chief Minister Raman Singh will be the first Chief Minister of the country to address people of his State every month through a regular Radio programme.
This will be an interview-based programme, which will be simultaneously aired on all the Akashwani centres from Raipur.
The State Public Relations Department, in association with Akashwani, has already started creating an outline of this programme.
It is noteworthy that Singh has decided to start this programme for reaching out to people of the State, provide information about government schemes to them and also to take people's feedback about such schemes.
Secretary and Commissioner of Public Relations Department Ganesh Shankar Mishra on Thursday informed that main objective of this programme is to ensure more of transparency in governance and administration.
He said that this programme is an attempt to reach out to the maximum number people in the State, including those living in forested areas, schedule caste and schedule tribe populated areas, farmers and people of rural areas, and to thereby strengthen their faith in Government and administration.
The State Government has issued instructions in the context to entire administrative system in all the districts.
Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand has sent letter to Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries, Secretaries and Special Secretaries of all the departments. It is stated in the letter that keeping in view the wide reach of Akashwani in the State and its usefulness in promotion of Government schemes among masses, the Chief Minister has decided to directly address the people on radio on second Sunday of every month from 10.45am to 11am.
The Chief Secretary has instructed officials of Panchayat and Rural Development Department and Urban Administration Department to arrange for transistors in Gram Panchayat buildings, community halls, function halls, and other public places, and also to invite people there so that maximum number of people may get to listen to Chief Minister's interview during the programme.
Dhand has also directed both the departments to ensure publicity of the programme at Gram Panchayat, Janpad Panchayat and District-level.
Commissioner-cum-Secretary of Public Relations Department Ganesh Shankar Mishra has also sent a letter in the context to all the District Collectors.
Mishra has stated in the letter that this programme of Chief Minister will be regularly aired. In this programme, Chief Minister will mention about the important events of the districts, achievements, and significant efforts of any social welfare organization. He has directed District Collectors to nominate an official of Additional Collector-level as nodal officer in respective districts. Mishra has requested people to sent suggestions and feedback after listening to the programme. Calendar of next six months has been prepared for this programme.