Chief Minister firm on keeping his election promise
In a significant announcement, CM K.Chandrasekhar Rao has said that the retirement age of State Govt. employees will be increased to 60 or 61 years in line with the election promise.
He also directed officials to prepare promotion charts of employees in all departments. An employee should know on what date he or she would get promotion & the unhealthy practice of lobbying for promotions should go.
The CM made it clear that the Govt. was ready to give promotions to all & the employees should cooperate by withdrawing cases filed by them on promotion issue. If required, the Govt. would create super-numerary posts, he asserted.
Speaking at the preparatory meeting for the State-level implementation of 30-day special action plan with the Panchayat Raj department officers at the Telangana State Institute of Rural Development here on Tuesday, Mr. Rao said the Govt. would not tolerate officers abusing employees at Mandal & Zilla Parishad meetings. Stern action would be taken against such officers.
He also directed the Chief Secretary to give immediate orders for merger of Vikarabad district in Charminar zone.
Speaking on the Govt’s vision to restore past glory of Panchayat Raj system, he said the State Govt. had brought major administrative reforms by creating new districts, divisions, mandals & many tandas, remote hamlets were converted into panchayats. Of 12,751 panchayats, 3,146 had ST sarpanches & the rural administrative units were now ready for administration & implementation of government programmes.
Government brought new Panchayat Raj Act as continuation of administrative reforms & to give clarity to the officers on duties & utilisation of funds & to increase accountability among people’s representatives & officers.
The State Govt. was implementing many works at the village level. It was providing drinking water through Mission Bhagiratha, extending Rythu Bandhu & Rythi Bima schemes, restored tanks through Mission Kakatiya & providing financial stimulus for strengthening the rural economy & taking up infrastructure projects without burdening village panchayats.
In addition to this, Govt. was providing fine rice to school students, nutritious food through anganwadi centres, Asara pensions, KCR Kits, Kalyana Lakshmi etc schemes When Govt. was doing so much, Panchayats have specific responsibilities like encouraging people’s participation in village level programmes, ensuring cleanliness, greenery in the villages, formulating five year plans & preparing budgets accordingly, prompt payment of electricity & other bills, maintenance of street lights etc
If people worked in a mission mode, good outcomes could be achieved without fail & there were any number of examples for this, he said citing examples of Gangadevipalli model village in Warangal district, Ankapur village in Nizamabad..
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