Govt planning to stream live meetings with officials
This is for people to see who sat on a file for how long and who cleared it. It will also be clear to all then, who wrote what on a particular file — be it the elected govt or the officials.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL
NEW DELHI: The Delhi government is planning to stream live all “important” meetings, following the alleged assault on chief secretary Anshu Prakash at the chief minister’s residence last week.
A government spokesperson on Monday said that the proposal will be tabled in the Cabinet meeting soon and a separate allocation in the upcoming budget would be made, if the project is approved.
Government officials said all meetings between ministers and officials will be covered. “Live feed will be available on a website. Residents will be able to watch the meetings with both audio and video output. Through this, people will know who spoke what in the meeting, be it the elected representative or officials,” a spokes- person said.
The official also said that there is another project to put all file movement and file notings online. “This is for people to see who sat on a file for how long and who cleared it. It will also be clear to all then, who wrote what on a particular file — be it the elected government or the officials,” he said.
The Joint Forum of Delhi Government employees welcomed the move but questioned if meetings called at midnight at the residence of ministers would also be streamed live.
The government’s plan comes after Prakash was allegedly assaulted by AAP MLAS and others during a meeting at chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on February 19 midnight.
The live streaming would be either done through the Delhi government website or a new website may be created for the purpose.
In the past, the AAP government had alleged that some officers created hurdles in the works of city administration. Since the alleged attack on the chief secretary, officers have not been attending meetings with the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues, demanding that Kejriwal must apologise for the incident.