Chief Minister Raghubar Das today asked officials to establish direct connect with people in the villages to solve their issues. He asked senior officials including Principal Secretaries, Commissioners, DCs and police officials from DGP to DSP to visit villages at least once in a week and communicate directly to the people. This will solve the small issues of villagers easily, he said.
While holding a high level review meeting with senior government officials on implementation of Central and State government run development schemes here on Monday the CM said that middlemen will also be eliminated with decreasing distance between the government and people. He said that doing the work of the poor will provide peace and asked commissioners to reviews the works of BDOs and COs of his area.
During the meeting CM said that Jharkhand has reached new heights of development in the last four years. “This is the result of teamwork, which will boost speed of development. People’s confidence in governance has increased. It has to be strengthened further. To speed up the work, the process has to be simplified. Simplify the rules so that development work should not be interrupted. Change the rules as per today's needs. Resolve the problem of common people,” said the CM.
He said that most of the areas of State are extremism-free today. “This is a huge achievement. The people are feeling safer. The demands of the people are quite small. They want a house, which we are giving under the Prime Minister's Housing Scheme and Ambedkar Awas Yojana. They want good roads, which are being made in every village. Electricity is being provided to each house. Now the process of giving quality power to the people is going on. Beneficiaries are being given pension, under the Ujjwala scheme, 14 lakh women of the State will be given LPG connection, stove and first refill free,” he added.
Das said that it is time to work for the next 5-6 months and instructed the DCs to accept plans of MP, MLA fund and work fast in fixed time frame. “This will speed up development work. Some of the DCs have done a good job of making school uniforms for children in schools. Others should learn from this and implement in their districts. The uniforms are being prepared by women of the village only. All the DCs should train women in their respective districts. Government will give women machines,” he said.
The CM asked to organise awareness rallies against child marriage. He also asked officials to depute urgent deployment of assistant women police personnel in all the 203 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Residential Schools. “Some districts have started motorcycle ambulance service. Start this kind of service for the remote villages of all the districts. To connect more hospitals to Ayushman India, make advisory committee at district level to encourage private hospitals to join the scheme. Any posts of NHM, ANM etc. in the districts should not be vacant after February. The scheme is being started under the pilot project in Ramgarh's Gola. Select beneficiaries from January 15 and start giving benefits to them under Sukanya Yojna. Add MPs, MLAs and other people's representatives with the scheme and provide benefits to the needy after organising a programme,” he said.
The CM said that the people of the State have to get drinking water as soon as possible. He asked officials to complete all the tasks by April so that there is no problem of water in summer. He also asked to prioritize the tribal villages in this region.
Chief Secretary Sudhir Tripathi, Development Commissioner DK Tiwari, Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, Sukhdev Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Singh, Director General of Police, DK Pandey, all principal secretaries, all secretaries, all regional commissioners, deputy commissioners of all districts, including senior officers of all departments were present in the meeting.