Lt Governor gets strict to prioritize plans & programmes in J&K, orders 100% transparency in future initiatives
20 Nov 2019 17:05:32
Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu summoned the General Administration Department today to advise all departments to update the websites with latest information and content by Nov 22.
While conducting a series of meetings Lt Governor reviewed the functioning of IT and Science & Technology Departments at the Civil Secretariat and several other Departments. He asked the department to strengthen the public service delivery mechanism and come up with delivery of citizens’ services via mobile applications.
He stressed upon conducting a survey to assess the on-ground situation of the implementation of solar energy schemes and find gaps. To evaluate whether the solar lamps and solar lanterns distributed were being put into use by the beneficiaries or not and explore the future initiatives needed for the successful implementation of the solar energy schemes.
The Lt-Governor directed the officers to prioritise e-Court programme besides updating CPIS and make it fully functional by December. He further called for 100 per cent biometric attendance system to track attendance of the employees at the Secretariat.
He entrusted upon the officers to prepare a UT led model for the implementation of BharatNet to connect gram panchayats across J&K through high-speed fibre optical network for taking up with Government of India.
While speaking on science centres sanctioned by the Government of India, the Lt Governor asked the concerned to resolve all bottlenecks with regard to these centres by December 15 and speedily implement the projects.