Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand on Wednesday directed all the departmental heads to ensure that Government assets are properly maintained in the State.
While holding a meeting of senior officers of different departments at the Mantralaya in Naya Raipur on Wednesday, the Chief Secretary laid emphasis on the need to maintain discipline in Government offices from the level of State capital to district, tehsil and block level offices.
He told the officers that all the departmental heads should ensure strict adherence of the Model Code of Conduct in their respective offices in view of the lok Sabha polls.Dhand said that files should be disposed of within the prescribed time limit while asking all the departmental heads to ensure presence of officers and employees under them in their respective headquarters.
He said that departmental heads have the power to give permission to the officers working in field areas to attend the office of the departmental head once in a month. If it is necessary to give permission for more days, the departmental heads should take permission from the Secretary of the Department concerned.
Present at the meeting were Director-General of Police (DGP) (Jail) Girdhari Nayak, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest AK Singh, Secretary, GAD, Vikassheel, Secretary, Higher Education, Dr Bl Agrawal, Secretary, Commercial Tax, RS Vishwakarma, Managing Director, Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company ltd, and Secretary to Chief Minister Subodh Kumar Singh, Commissioner, Urban Administration, Dr Rohit Yadav, Commissioner, Chhattisgarh Housing Board Sonmani Bora, Director, Health, Kamalpreet Singh, Director, Public Relations, OP Choudhary, Managing Director, State Cooperative Marketing Federation SK Jaiswal and Director, Food Department, Umesh Agrawal and other senior officers from various departments.