Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday said that the Transport Department is an important department in terms of revenue collection in the State. The department should take concrete steps towards maximum revenue collection, he added while being made aware of the efforts being made by the department to increase revenue collection.
The CM was told by the department that due to Corona, there has been less recovery of revenue so far. Only 55 per cent of the revenue target set by the department has been collected. On this, the CM asked officials to prepare a mechanism to increase revenue from the transport department.
Soren told the officials of the Transport Department that there have been many cases of disturbances in revenue received from vehicles at check posts. Due to this the government suffers loss of revenue. He was also instructed to fix the system at check post and curb the brokers.
It was told by the department that at this time only two permanent MVIs and 11 have been placed on contract basis, while work is being done in 11 districts on the charge. The CM asked the officials to start the process of appointment of MVI.
Meanwhile, holding a review meeting of the Information technology and E-Governance department the CM said tha the Information and Technology Department should take steps to prevent hacking of the official websites of all Government departments. He said that a security audit of all departmental websites should be conducted. Steps should be taken to provide this facility to those in need, he added.
The CM said cybercrime remains a big challenge today. “In such a situation, the Department of Information Technology should prepare a mechanism that can control cybercrime. For this, build a strong cell in which there is a whole team of cyber expert,” he said.
The CM said that different procedures are followed by different departments regarding IT services. Which causes a lot of problems and there is no uniformity. He asked the officials of the IT department to prepare comprehensive data about IT related services and equipment for all departments and provide facilities according to their needs. He also asked to release a toll-free number for Grievances Cell.
Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh, Development Commissioner KK Khandelwal, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Rajiv Arun Ekka alongwith Principal Secretaries and Secretaries of the departments were present in the meetings.