Yogi to dial DMs, SPs to keep them on toes, seek updates

ASKS HIS MINISTERS TO COME UP WITH REPORT CARDS AFTER 100 DAYS IN OFFICE

LUCKNOW To keep administrative officials on toes, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will himself start calling DMs and SPs on their landline phone numbers to know their location and receive updates

Leaving no room for complacency, he has also ordered his ministers to come up with report cards after 100 days in office, in around mid-June.

“While the government will issue a white paper on its successes and failures, individual ministers will present their report card on the work of their departments through presentations to the chief minister after 100 days in office,” said Srikant Sharma, energy minister and state government spokesperson.

He said officers who operate from camp offices must immediately discontinue the practice and start sitting in offices to meet people and redress their grievances at their level as much as possible so that they do not have to run to Lucknow to meet the chief minister and ministers.

“DMs and SPs have been asked to be available in offices at 6pm,” he said.

Insisting that the Yogi Adityanath government believed in being transparent, effective and visible, Sharma said the ministers had been asked to work not only in their departments but also supervise work in all the departments in the districts assigned to them as in-charge. All cabinet ministers and ministers with independent charge have been assigned two districts each and all ministers of state have been allotted a district each.

Ministers, according to Sharma, had been asked to conduct surprise inspections in schools, hospitals and other places of public importance.

“Ministers have also been told to attend ‘tehsil diwas’ and ‘thana diwas’ if they happen to be available in that place at that time, Sharma said.

Similarly, a minister, will sit in the state BJP office for two hours every day as per their turn, which will come in rotation, to meet workers and public, he said.

ZERO TOLERANCE ON CORRUPTION

Reiterating the Yogi government’s commitment towards zero tolerance policy on corruption, the minister said officers would be sent to jail and not allowed to walk away with warnings if complaints of corruption against them are found to be true.

Replying to a query on opposition parties raising questions over law and order, the spokesman said they better keep shut as people had seen the state of law and order in their regime.