Mayawati turns her focus to people’s needs
September 17th, 2011 - 12:34 am ICT by IANSLucknow, Sep 16 (IANS) With state assembly elections knocking at her door, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday presided over a day-long review meeting of several key departments and sounded a stern warning to the state bureaucracy to either deliver or face the music.
Simple things like issue of income certificates, to renewal of health insurance cards, issue of credit cards to farmers and timely repair of power transformers to ensure availability of electricity and availability of health services remained on top of her agenda at the meeting attended by cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh, chief secretary Anoop Misra as well as all principal secretaries and heads of departments.
The chief minister sought to make it loud and clear to all that officials down to the grassroots level should be told to pull up their socks. “Ensure proper implementation of the ‘Janhit Guarantee Kanoon’, which entitles delivery of various public services within a specified period of time, or else be ready to shell out the monetary fine prescribed for default,” she told the gathering.
While directing all district level officials to be present in their offices and make themselves freely available to common people between 10 a.m. and 12 noon on all weekdays, she also issued directives for asking all complainants to put their mobile numbers on their complaints. “These complaints would have to be necessarily put on the official website of the concerned office, together with the mobile numbers of the complainants so that cross-checking of the progress could be done by senior officials at the government level,” the chief minister declared.
“Serious action would follow against officials failing to ensure delivery within the timeframe prescribed under the ‘Janhit Guarantee Kanoon’, which was essentially meant to make the administration more responsive to the needs of the people,” she added.
Mayawati also showed keen interest in ensuring timely repair of roads, and appropriate availability of fertilizer to the farmers.
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