The civil servants should always be available to listen to people’s problems while also having as many interactions as possible with them, said Chief Secretary Sunil Kumar.
He was addressing the IAS probationers of 2012 batch of Chhattisgarh cadre while inaugurating a training programme held on Monday. The Chief Secretary stated that the officials need to deeply study the concerns of the people and try to solve them. ‘The officers should never inculcate the feeling of ‘we and them’ towards the people, according to an official statement issued here. ‘The charaterictics of the people of Chhattisagrh is that they welcome people coming to the State and and adopt all outsiders as their own,’ he said. Kumar said that the Government had implemented many successful schemes and they are also now being followed as a ‘model’ by other states.
The Chief Secretary asked the probationers to learn as much as possible from senior officers and other district level officers. He also asked the probationers to take the training programme being held for them seriously. Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) D S Mishra stated that the orientation programme for the probationers would be held for a month.
The probationers today were introduced to work being done by ‘Mitanins’, Public Districtibution System (PDS) and its achievements, school education, higher education, schemes implemented for tribal welfare besides information on all sectors. The probationers were also introduced to ground level worlers such as representatives of women Self Help Groups (SHGs), NGOs and members of Joint Forest Management Committees.They would also be provided basic information on various dialects in Chhattisgarh.