Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand has asked officers of all departments to ensure adherence to the Model Code of Conduct for the impartial and smooth conduct of administrative works related to the lok Sabha polls in the State.
While holding the meeting of senior officers here on Wednesday, the Chief Secretary told the officers to remove the pictures of political leaders from the websites of all departments immediately, in accordance with ECI instructions. Similarly, hoardings and posters based on Government publicity materials should be removed and photos printed on the Government calendars should be covered. He instructed all the officers of the departments concerned to ensure arrangement for ration, transportation, housing, communication mediums, diesel-petrol, insurance etc of the central police force deployed in the election related works.
Nodal officers should be appointed for that work and their name and mobile number should be sent to the Home Department, Dhand said. He told the officers to maintain necessary logistic arrangement with better coordination and cooperation. Additional Chief Secretary (Home), NK Aswal asked the Forest Department to make arrangement for bamboo and firewood for the central security force. Similarly, electricity, solar lantern arrangements will be made by Energy Department, whereas, the PWD will do the maintenance work of roads and bridges and culverts. Ration, kerosene, lPG gas will be provided by Food Department.
DGP AN Upadhyay, Principal Secretary Panchayat and Rural Development Department MK Raut, Secretary Food Department Vikassheel, Secretary Commercial Tax Department RS Vishwakarma, Secretary PHED and Water Resources Department Ganesh Shankar Mishra, Secretary, Revenue Department KR Pisda and senior officers of various departments were present in the meeting.