Chief Minister Raghubar Das today ordered to release payment of outstanding incentives of the volunteers working in Gram Panchayats of the State and issuance of identity cards within 10 days. During the monthly ‘Seedhi Baat’ programme here on Thursday he asked all the Deputy Commissioners to monitor their own activities and also through the Panchayat volunteers to ensure the performance of the applications submitted for caste and income certificate on priority basis.
The CM was speaking to senior government officials, Deputy Commissioners and Superintendents of Police of all districts alongwith Secretaries and heads of different departments through video conferencing here on Thursday.
Appreciating the role of Panchayat Sewaks, the CM said that they have helped in bringing the benefits of various government schemes to the people in every village-panchayat and bringing development work to the surface. In return, the incentive amount due to them should be paid in due course. He also instructed all the panchayat secretariats to allocate separate rooms for the Panchayat Sewaks.
Das, on the occasion, also instructed the DCs to register their workers by organizing camps in all the blocks from 5th to 7th March for effective implementation of the Prime Minister Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan Yojana, which started for pension of unorganized sector workers. Every worker of the unorganized sector who has been enrolled in this scheme has to be paid Rs 3,000 pension per month after completion of 60 years of age. He also asked the Deputy Commissioners to ensure that the campaign being run for backward caste survey in the State is completed within a month.
During the programme, the CM listened to the complaints of 16 people and most cases were settled on the spot. Virendra Mahato, a resident of Kuju in Ramgarh district, complained that he had applied for a passport, but in the course of police verification, in-charge of Kuju OP has given incorrect report of lodging four criminal cases against him. For this reason his passport was not released. The SP of Ramgarh admitted that the Kuju OP in charge had given the wrong report. The Chief Minister ordered him to immediately suspend the police officer giving incorrect report stating the matter of serious negligence.
Khunti resident Manju Devi complained that her son was killed on March 28, 2018, at a distance of just 300 meters from the police station, but no action has been taken against the accused till now. When asked about this, the SP said that two militants of the PLFI arrested two days ago have accepted their involvement in the case. They will be questioned shortly after taking them on remand. On this, the CM ordered that if this case of militant killings proves the case, then the victim's younger brother should be given job on compassionate grounds and the affected family should be given compensation according to the government rules.
Bandhani Devi of Bero Block, Ranchi, had been working as a watchman in the Bero police station, complaining that the pension received after the death of her husband Jalsu Oraon was stopped for five years. On this, the Deputy Commissioner of Ranchi informed that due to non-verification of the dead person’s service book, the pension was stopped. Within a week, the pension will be started by completing this process.
Satyakinkar Verma of Seraikela-Kharsawan had filed a complaint that his three acres of land situated in Asagi village was not acquired by the Adityapur Industrial Area Development Authority, but it was incorrectly labeled as acquired land in the register of the zonal office.
With this, the receipt of their land is not being issued. When asked by the Chief Minister in this matter, the Deputy Commissioner of Saraikela-Kharsawan assured that within one week, the receipt of land will be issued by improving the register-2.
On the complaint of not getting compensation despite the loss of more than 100 farmers' crops due to drought under the Basia block of Gumla district, the CM ordered the concerned department to compensate all the affected farmers through insurance.
Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Sunil Kumar Barnwal informed on the occasion that 3,32,211 complaints were lodged in Jan Samvad out of which 2.91 lakh have been found to be fit for taking action. A total of 2.61 lakh complaints (90.14%) were solved till date.