Chief Minister Raghubar Das underlined the necessity of slashing time needed for inter-departmental approval for a project that usually takes its toll on the project and using faster means of communication between departments for better and timely results. Das unleashed the mantra for faster results during a meeting on interdepartmental convergence on Monday.
The CM called for doing away with the culture of unnecessary paperwork for obtaining cooperation on a project. He focused on the unconditional devotion to work to stand upto the expectations of people of welfare state.
While stressing upon the need to save time and to achieve better results, Das said it is imperative to rise over the sensitivity of position for achieving coordination within a department and to use telecommunication services for interdepartmental discourse if possible instead of sending documents to another department.
The CM was addressing a joint meeting on convergence between department of Human Resource Development, Health, Welfare & Social Welfare and Drinking Water & Sanitation Department.
Significantly the CM ordered closure of engineering cells active in all departments and concentration of construction of functions of those cells in the Building Construction department.
The CM said construction works of all departments must be entrusted upon Building Construction department so that compliance and quality control could be ensured.
As the State government set its priority on timely results and quick delivery of services to a common man, Das instructed officials to explore the feasibility of replacing minor construction works for Aanganwadi centres and Primary Health Centre with fabricated structures. He directed officials to motivate Aanganwadi Sevikas-Sahayikas, Auxiliary Nurse Midwife and Sahiyas as people get benefits through them.
The CM also ordered installing biometric system at Aanganwadi centres and transfer of residential schools managed by Welfare and Social Welfare department to the department of HRD.
Das batted for recruitment of permanent teachers, employing ‘Poshan Sakhi’, uniformity in medical services and said that the department of Social Welfare should construct MESO Hospitals and handover its management to Health department.
The CM also urged for identifying uniform aspects of National Rural Health Mission and Integrated Child Development Programme and called for a better coordination between the two components of social services. He gave emphasis to regular medical check-up of school children and instructed officials of Health department to constitute a team of doctors to meet the goal.
A high-level monitoring committee headed by Development Commissioner, RS Poddar has been constituted to oversee interdepartmental coordination. The committee will comprise secretaries of concerned departments.
Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Kumar, Principal Secretary Planning and Development Arun Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary DWSD AP Singh, Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare K Vidyasagar, Principal Secretary Social Welfare Mridula Sinha, Secretary to CM Sunil Barnwal, Secretary, HRD Aradhana Patanaik and Secretary Social Welfare Vandana Dadel were present in the meeting.